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Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever. New come buckra,. He get sick,. He tak fever,. He be die,. He be die, & etc. In 1799, the traveler Robert Renny recalled being greeted on the shore of Jamaica by a canoe full of slave women sarcastically chanting. Victims. New York City in 1878.

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Yellow Fever

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  1. Yellow Fever New come buckra, He get sick, He tak fever, He be die, He be die, & etc. In 1799, the traveler Robert Renny recalled being greeted on the shore of Jamaica by a canoe full of slave women sarcastically chanting.

  2. Victims New York City in 1878 Victims of the fever awaiting burial at Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis in 1878 Plague-stricken—waiting for the frost in 1878

  3. More victims The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

  4. Cause Aedes aegypti mosquito Flavivirus genus

  5. Transmission Monkey Humans Mosquito

  6. Symptoms Fever Muscle Pain Headache Shivers Black Vomit

  7. Regions Affected South America Africa

  8. Treatment Oral rehydration salts and paracetamol Dehydration and fever antibiotic Bacterial infection Intensive care Serious ill patients

  9. Prevention Vaccination Vigilant Surveillance Mosquito Control

  10. Vaccination A single dose of vaccine provides protection for 10 years and probably for life.

  11. References The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins and Anne Coxe Toogood Viruses, plagues, and history by Michael B. A. Oldstone Yellow Fever & public health in the new south by John H. Ellis Epidemics and history: disease, power and imperialism by Sheldon Watts http://www.who.int/csr/disease/yellowfev/en/ A Special Gratitude to Dr. Scarcella Presented By: Kwang-Sug Lee

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