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Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever. By Rebeka Period 1. Spherical virus.

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Yellow Fever

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  1. Yellow Fever By Rebeka Period 1

  2. Spherical virus • This virus is called flavivirus. Some symptoms of it are severe infection are high fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, vomiting, and backache. After a brief recovery period, favivirus can lead to shock, bleeding, and kidney and liver failure.

  3. How you get it • Dangerous mosquitoes in Africa and South America infect your skin and give you it.

  4. Infected Places of Yellow Fever • In Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo,  Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,  Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia • In South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela.

  5. Fun Fact Yellow fever gets its name from liver failure called jaundice which causes a yellowing of the skin and it whitens the eyes.

  6. People Trying to Help The World Health Organization is helping to save lives from Yellow Fever The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is also trying to help people

  7. How the Prize Money Should be Used I think the money should be used to help children who need to go to the hospital and I think more people should help out at children's hospitals.

  8. Works Cited “Areas of Yellow fever.” Internet: Google. http://www.travel-images.com/health-yellow-fever-areas.html 13 November 2008. “Yellow fever causes" Internet: Google. http://www.dhpe.org/infect/yellow.html 18 November 2008. “Yellow fever” Internet: Google. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/YellowFever/YF_FactSheet.html 18 November 2008. “Yellow fever” Internet: Google. http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/yellow_fever.jsp 14 November 2008.

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