How to Recognize Yellow Fever

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: You must be south of the equator to contract Yellow Fever.

   Click on a map of either continent below to see of you are or may be at risk.
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   Step 2: Following being bitten by an infected mosquito

   They will be typically flu-like and include the following:
   Fever and chills, severe headache, back pain, general muscle aches, nausea, fatigue, and weakness.
   
   This phase may be followed by a short period of symptom remission.
   
   This is not enough information to make a decent diagnosis of yellow fever because the symptoms are too vague. , Hepatic coagulopathy, which means bleeding of the liver, produces hemorrhagic (which means, literally, to bleed profusely) symptoms, including hematemesis (black vomit), epistaxis (nose bleed), gum bleeding, and petechial and purpuric hemorrhages (bruising).
   
   Deepening jaundice (yellowing of the skin) frequently occurs in severe cases. ,
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   Step 3: initial symptoms of a person infected present themselves three to six days later.

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   Step 4: Pay very close attention to the following after a remission

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   Step 5: as you may need to move very quickly to get the infected person to a hospital for supportive care for symptoms such as follows: High fever

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   Step 6: headache

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   Step 7: back pain

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   Step 8: nausea

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   Step 9: vomiting

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    Step 10: abdominal pain

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    Step 11: and fatigue.

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    Step 12: Final stages of the disease may include the following symptoms: Hypotension (low blood pressure)

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    Step 13: metabolic acidosis (accumulation of acids in bodily fluids)

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    Step 14: acute tubular necrosis (damage or death to cells of the urinary tract)

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    Step 15: myocardial dysfunction (dysfunction of the heart muscle)

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    Step 16: and cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat).

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