Description of Disease

Yellow Fever is an RNA virus (ribonucleic acid) like zika, meaning it has one
helix. Yellow fever can be transmitted through different cycles, but ultimately it
comes from mosquitos that have bitten infected animals. Yellow fever belongs the
genus Flavivirus and family, flaviviridae. The two species that can give you
yellow fever are Haemagogus and Aedes. There are three ways or cycles that
yellow fever can be transmitted. The Jungle cycle, The urban cycle, or the
intermediate cycle. In the jungle cycle, a human would obtain the virus from a
mosquito that obtained it from an infected monkey. In the intermediate cycle the
virus is transferred directly from a monkey to a human (working in the jungle) or
from a mosquito that has become infected from biting an infected human. Lastly,
the urban cycle is when the yellow fever virus is brought to a new area and the
native mosquito there gives it to others from bitting the originaly infected person.
Symptoms are numerous, most are common in other forms of disease. A common
symptom in a fevers including Yellow Fever is chills, due to your body trying to
stop the invading pathogen. Also head aches, from tension near sensitive parts of
the brain. Many symptoms are cause from irritation or imflamation. Myositis is
the inflammation of large muscles and sensitivity to light comes from
inflammation of different parts of your eye. Reduction of blood flow can lead to
little urination and lastly liver complications leads to Jaundice or the yellowing of
skin, this is a big sign. Still, to this day there is no cure for Yellow Fever but
getting a vaccination before traveling to places that have been exposed to Yellow
Fever can easily prevent it. If you have contracted Yellow fever the best thing to
do is get plenty of rest and use pain killers. Pain killers are very helpful with the
inflammation on muscles. During the outbreak in Philadelphia of 1793, there were
no pain killers and no one knew how the disease was spreading. We have pain
killers, long live Angolia!