Yellow Fever - Symptom, Treatment and cause of Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever Description

A serious tropical liver infection.

Yellow Fever Cause

Viral infection transmitted from one person to another by the Aedes mosquito. Occurs only in central Africa, and tropical Central and South America. The incubation period is three to six days.

Yellow Fever Symptom

Vary from vomiting, headache, tiredness, and eye pain in mild cases, to severe generalised body pains, high fevers, bleeding from the gums and intestine, bruising, copious vomiting, delirium, kidney failure and liver failure (which causes yellow skin - jaundice).

Investigation

Specific blood tests to confirm the diagnosis may not turn positive until a week or two after the symptoms develop, which makes early diagnosis difficult.

Yellow Fever Treatment

No effective treatment or cure. The patient must be carefully nursed, given fluids through a drip into a vein, and sedated. A single vaccination gives protection for at least ten years.

Complications

Severe constipation.

Prognosis of Yellow Fever

Death through massive internal bleeding and liver failure is common, even in good hospitals.