Thursday, 24 August 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Yellow fever - Americas (56): French Guiana

Yellow Fever -- Région d'outre-mer de French Guiana, France
Yellow fever is an acute viral disease transmissible from animal (monkey) to man and man to man by various mosquitoes (genus _Aedes_, but also other genera circulating in the forest). The yellow fever virus is transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito.
After an incubation period of about one week, the disease is characterized by fever, chills, muscle pain, headache, nausea, vomiting. Severe forms (hemorrhage, liver disorders, kidney problems) can develop in 15 per cent of

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