Published 01:11 IST, November 8th 2019

Yellow Fever: From Symptoms to Treatment all you need to know

Yellow Fever is a deadly fever, which is prominent in the endemic areas. Take a look at everything you need to know about it, signs, symptoms and treatment.

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Yellow fever is a of fever which is caused by mosquito bites. It is generally borne by individuals travelling in endemic countries, especially several parts of Africa and South America. It is a potentially life-threatening disease. Take a look at at what does it mean and some of its prominent symptoms. This article takes information from who.int and JJ medicine YouTube channel.

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What is Yellow Fever?

Yellow fever is a dely fever, which takes place due to a mosquito bite. Yellow Fever occurs due to transfer of Flavivirus virus to human beings from aeedes and haemogogus infected mosquitoes. re is a high chance of getting bitten by se virus-infected mosquitoes, especially in dense endemic regions, as mentioned above. In fact, in some cases in South America, this fever is also transmission from monkeys to human beings.

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Symptoms of Yellow Fever

yellow fever is t an instant fever which one gets within a few hours after  mosquito bite. Yellow fever is divided into three sts based on infection. Let’s take a look a magnified look concerning symptoms in every st.

St 1:

It takes around 3-6 days for virus to incubate. Following symptoms may be exhibited by patient after that:

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  • Slow heart rate
  • Heache
  • Febrile, Generalised malaise
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Epigastric tenderness
  • Red conjunctivitis eyes
  • Irritability
  • Lumbosacral pain

St 2:

During remission period, for 48 hours, all se above symptoms vanish.

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St 3:

St 3 is an Intoxication period. This phase starts after sixth day of mosquito bite. During this st, all symptoms which were earlier experienced in infection st bounce back. Thus leing to-

  • Fever
  • Vomiting
  • Nausea
  • Jaundice
  • Kidney and liver failure
  • Oliguria
  • Dark urine
  • Haemorrh
  • CNS Dysfunction

Treatment of Yellow Fever

Though re is an absence of a specific drug or live vaccine for Yellow fever, its impact can be reduced by 

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  • Dialysis
  • Proper Nutrition
  • Intensive care
  • Treating bleeding, through FFP
  • Antibiotics for viral infections

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Disclaimer: This information is compiled by reports from several medical websites, youtube channels and health magazines. If you are suffering from any of above-mentioned symptoms, it is visable to first take counsel of your doctor before beginning with any Yellow Fever treatment.

10:45 IST, November 7th 2019