22 Facts About Yellow fever

Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.

Safe and effective vaccine against yellow fever exists, and some countries require vaccinations for travelers.

Yellow fever begins after an incubation period of three to six days.

Yellow fever virus is mainly transmitted through the bite of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, but other mostly Aedes mosquitoes such as the tiger mosquito can serve as a vector for this virus.

Concern exists about yellow fever spreading to southeast Asia, where its vector A aegypti already occurs.

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Yellow fever is most frequently a clinical diagnosis, based on symptomatology and travel history.

Since mild cases of yellow fever can contribute significantly to regional outbreaks, every suspected case of yellow fever is treated seriously.

Personal prevention of yellow fever includes vaccination and avoidance of mosquito bites in areas where yellow fever is endemic.

Institutional measures for prevention of yellow fever include vaccination programmes and measures to control mosquitoes.

Demand for yellow fever vaccine has continued to increase due to the growing number of countries implementing yellow fever vaccination as part of their routine immunization programmes.

Fractional dose yellow fever vaccination refers to administration of a reduced volume of vaccine dose, which has been reconstituted as per manufacturer recommendations.

The first practical use of fractional dose yellow fever vaccination was in response to a large yellow fever outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in mid-2016.

Yellow fever is common in tropical and subtropical areas of South America and Africa.

In 1848, Josiah C Nott suggested that yellow fever was spread by insects such as moths or mosquitoes, basing his ideas on the pattern of transmission of the disease.

Carlos Finlay, a Cuban doctor and scientist, proposed in 1881 that yellow fever might be transmitted by previously infected mosquitoes rather than by direct contact from person to person, as had long been believed.

Yellow fever was the first virus shown to be transmitted by mosquitoes.

Yellow fever campaigned against yellow fever during the construction of the Panama Canal.

Yellow fever is credited for using the first type of medical consent form during his experiments in Cuba, an attempt to ensure that participants knew they were taking a risk by being part of testing.

The eradication of yellow fever strengthened the relationship between the US and Mexico, which had not been very good in the years prior.

The eradication of yellow fever was a major step toward better global health.

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.

Yellow fever has been researched by several countries as a potential biological weapon.