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Article: Yellow Fever
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Yellow Fever
What Is Yellow Fever?
Are There Different Kinds of Yellow Fever?
How Do People Know They Have Yellow Fever?
How Do Doctors Diagnose and Treat Yellow Fever?
How Can Yellow Fever Be Prevented?
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Yellow fever is an infectious disease caused by a virus that is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.
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Aedes aegypti
mosquito
Epidemic
Flavivirus
Mosquito-borne disease
Viral hemorrhagic fevers
What Is Yellow Fever?
Yellow fever is a disease caused by yellow fever virus, a member of the flavivirus (FLAY-vih-vy-rus) group of viruses. The disease gets its name because it often causes
jaundice*
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