Definitions for Yellow Fever
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. yellow jack, yellow fever, black vomitnoun

   caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito

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1. yellow fevernoun

   An acute febrile illness of tropical regions, caused by a flavivirus and spread by mosquitoes, characterised by jaundice, black vomit and the absence of urination.

2. yellow fevernoun

   A term used to describe the attraction of a person of non-East Asian descent towards people of East Asian descent.

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1. Yellow fever

   Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains – particularly in the back – and headaches. Symptoms typically improve within five days. In about 15% of people, within a day of improving the fever comes back, abdominal pain occurs, and liver damage begins causing yellow skin. If this occurs, the risk of bleeding and kidney problems is increased.The disease is caused by the yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. It infects humans, other primates, and several types of mosquitoes. In cities, it is spread primarily by Aedes aegypti, a type of mosquito found throughout the tropics and subtropics. The virus is an RNA virus of the genus Flavivirus. The disease may be difficult to tell apart from other illnesses, especially in the early stages. To confirm a suspected case, blood-sample testing with polymerase chain reaction is required.A safe and effective vaccine against yellow fever exists, and some countries require vaccinations for travelers. Other efforts to prevent infection include reducing the population of the transmitting mosquitoes. In areas where yellow fever is common, early diagnosis of cases and immunization of large parts of the population are important to prevent outbreaks. Once a person is infected, management is symptomatic; no specific measures are effective against the virus. Death occurs in up to half of those who get severe disease.In 2013, yellow fever resulted in about 127,050 severe infections and 45,000 deaths worldwide, with nearly 90 percent of these occurring in Africa. Nearly a billion people live in an area of the world where the disease is common. It is common in tropical areas of the continents of South America and Africa, but not in Asia. Since the 1980s, the number of cases of yellow fever has been increasing. This is believed to be due to fewer people being immune, more people living in cities, people moving frequently, and changing climate increasing the habitat for mosquitoes.The disease originated in Africa and spread to the Americas starting in the 17th century with the European trafficking of enslaved Africans from sub-Saharan Africa. Since the 17th century, several major outbreaks of the disease have occurred in the Americas, Africa, and Europe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, yellow fever was considered one of the most dangerous infectious diseases; numerous epidemics swept through major cities of the US and in other parts of the world.In 1927, yellow fever virus was the first human virus to be isolated.

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1. yellow fever

   Yellow fever is a serious, potentially deadly, mosquito-borne viral disease primarily occurring in tropical regions of Africa and South America, characterized by high fever, jaundice due to liver damage, and hemorrhage. The disease is preventable through vaccination.

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1. Yellow fever

   Yellow fever, also known as Yellow Jack or "Yellow Rainer" and other names, is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The virus is a 40 to 50 nm enveloped positive-sense RNA virus, the first human virus discovered and the namesake of the Flavivirus genus. In high-risk areas where vaccination coverage is low, prompt recognition and control of outbreaks through immunization is critical to prevent epidemics. The disease may be difficult to distinguish from other illnesses, especially in the early stages. To confirm any suspicions from the case history and information on the patient's journeys abroad, the doctor must take a blood sample and then insert it through a laser scanner. The yellow fever virus is transmitted by the bite of female mosquitoes and is found in tropical and subtropical areas in South America and Africa, but not in Asia. The only known hosts of the virus are primates and several species of mosquito. The origin of the disease is most likely to be Africa, from where it was introduced to South America through the slave trade in the 16th century. Since the 17th century, several major epidemics of the disease have been recorded in the Americas, Africa, and Europe. In the 19th century, yellow fever was deemed one of the most dangerous infectious diseases.

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1. Yellow Fever

   An acute infectious disease primarily of the tropics, caused by a virus and transmitted to man by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes and Haemagogus.

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1. YELLOW FEVER

   A passion for reading the Hearst newspapers.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. yellow fever

   A cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloured coat, in which yellow predominates.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Yellow Fever in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Yellow Fever in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Yellow Fever in a Sentence

1. Kelly Kim:

   Yellow Fever celebrates all things Asian: the food, the culture and the people and our menu reflects that featuring cuisine from Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, Thailand and Hawaii, we have been a proud Asian, female-owned business since our founding over four and a half years ago in Torrance, California.

2. Anthony Fauci:

   Someone who is probably a rural worker in the woods, in the forest, in the jungle gets bit by a mosquito who is infected with yellow fever but likely got it from a monkey, so it goes from animal to human, but it doesn't get into the population of Aedes aegypti, which are very frequent in the big cities like Rio de Janeiro.

3. Hernando Agudelo Ospina:

   This is an urban pattern of outbreak of Yellow Fever and it is much more complicated to tackle and deal with, the possibility of spreading out to other provinces or even to the all country is much higher than if it had happened in a rural area.

4. Health Minister Felix Kabange:

   I declare today a localized epidemic of yellow fever in the provinces of Kinshasa, Kongo Central and Kwango.

5. Richard Mihigo:

   That explains why we are in a situation almost like a protracted sort of situation where multiple outbreaks break at the same time, the supply system is also an issue, because Richard Mihigo need to bring in all the vaccines - being for measles, being for yellow fever or cholera - and it's not easy to manage all the logistics for all these events happening at the same time.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Yellow Fever
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Yellow_Fever
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fever
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Yellow Fever
6. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=Yellow Fever
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Yellow Fever