Question

Watch the documentary, American deadliest outbreak, documentary on the outbreak of yellow fever . Can you please write it down 300or more words please.

Then discuss How did the disease begin in the US? What brought it? Who did it attach? What was the cause? Why did it appear and disappear from year to year? What was done to prevent getting the disease? Non-medical ideas people had. How dangerous was the disease? What did people do? Were they afraid? How did they live? How did it affect economy? What effect did mobility (railroads) have on the spread? Add a new discussion topic Forum Gradebook Discussion Started by Replies Unreac Discussion A Mamusu Chukwujioke Discuss sion A Babbly Parmar Discussion 1 zeina iskandar

Answer 1

The yellow fever virus is found in tropical and subtropical areas of Africa and South America. The virus is spread to people by the bite of an infected mosquito. Yellow fever is a very rare cause of illness in U.S. travelers. fever with aches and pains to severe liver disease with bleeding and yellowing skin (jaundice). Jaundice results from liver deterioration or failure and can turn the skin and whites of the eyes a yellowish color. So it is known as yellow fever. When transmitted to humans, the yellow fever virus can damage the liver and other internal organs and be potentially fatal.There is no medicine to treat or cure infection. To prevent from yellow fever, use insect repellent, wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants, and get vaccinated.

The first yellow fever outbreaks in the United States occurred in late 1690s. Nearly 100 years later, in the late summer of 1793, refugees from a yellow fever epidemic in the Caribbean fled to Philadelphia.

The Flavivirus causes yellow fever, when an infected mosquito bites you. Mosquitoes become infected with the virus when they bite an infected human or monkey. The disease cannot be spread from one person to another.People who get yellow fever develop serious illness that can lead to bleeding, shock, organ failure, and sometimes death.

There is no medicine to treat or cure infection from yellow fever. Rest, drink fluids, and use pain killer and medication to reduce fever and relieve aching. People with severe symptoms of yellow fever infection should be hospitalized for close observation and supportive care.

Headache, muscle and joint aches, fever, flushing, loss of appetite, vomiting, and jaundice are common. Symptoms often go away briefly after about 3 to 4 days.

1900 The Reed Yellow Fever Commission proved that yellow fever infection is transmitted to humans by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. 1905 The last outbreak in the United States occurred in New Orleans. 1906 Following the demonstration that Ae.

Using vector control and strict vaccination programs, the urban cycle of yellow fever was nearly eradicated from South America. Since 1943, only a single urban outbreak in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, has occurred. Since the 1980s, the number of yellow fever cases has been increasing again, and A. aegypti has returned to the urban centers of South America.