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  • Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Yellow Fever
Used for/see from:
  • n: Fever, Yellow
  • n: Fevers, Yellow
  • n: Yellow Fevers

An acute infectious disease primarily of the tropics, caused by a virus and transmitted to man by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes and Haemagogus. The severe form is characterized by fever, HEMOLYTIC JAUNDICE, and renal damage.

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