Symptoms Of Yellow Fever

Decent Essays
Yellow Fever has been commonly seen in Third World Countries. The symptoms take 3-6 days to develop. It includes fever, chills, headaches, backaches, and muscle aches. Yellow Fever is a disease caused by a virus that spreads through mosquito bites. Yellow Fever has a pathogen called flavivrus which causes it. As yellow fever evolves it is infectious. The disease is endemic of America. Since there is no cure for the viral infection, medical treatment for yellow fever focuses on easing the symptoms like dehydration. There is a high risk of internal bleeding. Avoiding aspirin and other non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs if you suspect yellow fever. Being that the yellow fever disease is common in Africa and South America

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The two ways to treat Yellow Fever are similar in these ways. First of all, they both use pain killing syrups and drinks, and encourage drinking fluids. The fluids include coffee and…

    • 500 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Yellow Fever and Human Experimentation As researchers traveled to Cuba to study the disease, United States Army researchers soon discovered the cause of Yellow Fever. Through the determination of Yellow Fever Experimentation Carols Finlay, decides to test his theory of mosquito transmission. This is what many historians or researches call a human experimentation in which a human of course takes into an act of manipulation of the body for further understandment. Lazer (another researcher) continues the experiment on other humans, unfortunately they soon fell ill.…

    • 307 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    1) Heading: Huffard, R. Scott, Jr. “Infected Rails: Yellow Fever and Southern Railroads” The Journal of Southern History, 79 (February 2013): 79-112. 2) Author’s Purpose: The author wrote this article to show how the growth of railroads in the south after the Civil War fostered the spread of the yellow fever across the south, specifically through Mississippi, in 1878, and Florida, in 1888. The author also shows how devastating the yellow fever was and how the people of the south reacted to it.…

    • 216 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Many patients that contracted the Yellow Fever, was bled by Benjamin Rush or other physicians, that believed the tactic worked. Rush believed that bloodletting people is an effort to reduce the body from inflammation. Consequently, Dr. Benjamin Rush and other physicians bled too much, leading to the patient fainting, or dying from the bloodletting instead of the fever. But, through Rush and physicians’ eyes, they believe the treatment was working.…

    • 1265 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Fever 1793 Summary

    • 1701 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Jamela Mavrakis Anderson, Fever 1793 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 249pgs. The Epidemic of Yellow Fever, 1793 Fever 1793 portrays a young fourteen year old girl, Matilda Cook, who lives in Philadelphia as an epidemic sweeps through know as, Yellow Fever. Yellow fever is a disease that starts with fever and muscle ache.…

    • 1701 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Abstract Smallpox is a highly infectious disease caused by the Variola virus. This report explores the taxonomic classification, “life cycle”, and mechanism of replication of this pathogen, as well as discusses the virulence and treatment options for an infected human host. This member of the Orthopoxvirus genus is extremely virulent, and has a fatality rate of nearly 30%. While this virus only attacks a human host, similar members of the Voxviridae family produce similar infections in animals.…

    • 854 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Mattie and her family are not aware of the wave of disease that is about to pass through the city of Philadelphia. Key Idea 1: The Fever A fever crashes down like a wave in the city of Philadelphia spreading incredibly fast among the people living there. Yellow fever is a disease that is spread by a species of infected mosquitos. A mild case of this disease can cause fever, headache, nausea, and vomiting, However, serious cases can cause fatal heart, liver, and kidney conditions. If diagnosed with yellow fever your body will feel pain in the abdomen and muscles, chills, fatigue, fever, and lose of appetite.…

    • 827 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The majority of the first part of the book described the background of the Yellow Fever Epidemic. The first known case was a young French soldier, whose name has faded from the frames of time, in an American boarding house in Philadelphia. His death was of little note at first, it wasn’t until a few other inhabitants of the boarding house experienced the same symptoms did anyone make the connections. Doctors began noticing an influx of patients, all with the same complaints, Doctor Benjamin Rush told other doctors of his theory of the disease being Yellow Fever and they agreed. With this information they began thinking of origins and eventually blamed it on cargo dumped on the local wharf.…

    • 568 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Shingles Research Paper

    • 525 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Even with no cure doctors can prescribe medication. The two most commonly prescribed antiviral medications are acyclovir (Zovirax) and valacyclovir (valtrex). Doctors may also prescribe pain relievers. They may prescribe an anesthetic which will block pain at and around where it is given. Doctors can prescribe nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that relieves pain, decreases inflammation, and reduces fever.…

    • 525 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Analytic Essay This article explains one man’s view on vaccination. He goes against the belief of many, and what he’s been taught in medical school, claiming that there are risks involved in deciding to vaccinate. The author of this article argues that vaccines are not 100% safe, and that parents should conduct their own research in order to make the right decision about vaccination. Shane Ellison is not only a medical chemist, but he is also a father.…

    • 674 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    (Centers for Disease Control, 2017) No treatment of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever can result in encephalitis, seizures, renal failure or respiratory distress. It can also result in organ damage or possibly death. (Center for Disease Control,…

    • 615 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dbq Columbian Exchange

    • 1159 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Not merely were goods purchased but besides disease became a widespread epidemic. North Americans spread pox. while Africa spread Malaria and Yellow Fever. Yellow fever shortly spread to South America. North America.…

    • 1159 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Shanae’s illness could be caused by the increasing number of mosquitos she has been exposed to, some of which cary viruses. One of Shanae’s mosquito bites most likely transmitted a virus that caused dengue fever, the disease her husband and Kemar read about in the newspaper. Part ll 1. An increase in pollution worldwide may be an attributing factor to the rise…

    • 805 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Columbian Exchange

    • 456 Words
    • 2 Pages

    It is not just the old world; the new world introduced yellow fever to the old…

    • 456 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Blood Doping

    • 687 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Athletes participating in aerobic endurance activities such as running, bicycling, swimming, and cross-country skiing require optimum aerobic capacity to deliver as much oxygen as possible to the muscles to increase stamina and performance. Aerobic capacity can be improved by doing aerobic capacity workouts frequently. Sadly, some chose to take the shortcut way to success by cheating with blood doping to achieve optimum aerobic capacity, thus gaining an unfair advantage. Blood doping is one of the illegal ways to improve athletic performance.…

    • 687 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays