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Definition
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.[1]The disease is caused by yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of an infected female mosquito.[1]In 2013, yellow fever resulted in about 127,000 severe infections and 45,000 deaths.[1]
Signs and symptoms
Yellow fever begins after an incubation period of three to six days.[2] Most cases only cause a mild infection with fever, headache, chills, back pain, fatigue, loss of appetite, muscle pain, nausea, and vomiting.[3] In 15 percent of cases, though, people enter a second, toxic phase of the disease with recurring fever, this time accompanied by jaundice due to liver damage, as well as abdominal pain.[4]
Virology
Yellow fever is caused by yellow fever virus, an enveloped RNA virus 40 to 50 nanometers in width, it is of the family Flaviviridae.[5]The positive-sense, single-stranded RNA is around 11,000 nucleotides long and has a single open reading frame encoding a polyprotein. Host proteases cut this polyprotein into three structural proteins, C, prM, E, and seven nonstructural proteins NS1, NS2A, NS2B, NS3, NS4A, NS4B, NS5; the enumeration corresponds to the arrangement of the protein coding genes in the genome.[6]
Transmission
Yellow fever virus is mainly transmitted through the bite of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, but other mostly Aedes mosquitoes such as the tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus can also serve as a vector for this virus. Like other arboviruses, which are transmitted by mosquitoes, yellow fever virus is taken up by a female mosquito when it ingests the blood of an infected human or another primate.[7]
Mechanism
After transmission from a mosquito, the viruses replicate in the lymph nodes and infect dendritic cells in particular. From there, they reach the liver and infect hepatocytes, probably indirectly via Kupffer cells, which leads to eosinophilic degradation of these cells and to the release of cytokines. Apoptotic masses known as Councilman bodies appear in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes.[8][9]
Diagnosis
Yellow fever is most frequently a clinical diagnosis, based on symptomatology and travel history. Mild cases of the disease can only be confirmed virologically.[10][11]A direct confirmation can be obtained by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, where the genome of the virus is amplified.[12]
Prevention
Vaccination is recommended for those traveling to affected areas, because non-native people tend to develop more severe illness when infected. Protection begins by the tenth day after vaccine administration in 95 percent of people,[13] and had been reported to last for at least 10 years. The World Health Organization, however, states that a single dose of vaccine is sufficient to confer lifelong immunity against yellow fever disease.[14]
Treatment
As with other Flavivirus infections, no cure is known for yellow fever. Hospitalization is advisable and intensive care may be necessary because of rapid deterioration in some cases.[15]Symptomatic treatment includes rehydration and pain relief with drugs such as paracetamol.[16]
Epidemiology 1
Yellow fever is common in tropical and subtropical areas of South America and Africa. Worldwide, about 600 million people live in endemic areas. The WHO estimates that 200,000 cases of disease and 30,000 deaths a year occur, but the number of officially reported cases is far lower.[17][18]
Epidemiology 2
An estimated 90 percent of yellow fever infections occur on the African continent.[12] In 2016, a large outbreak originated in Angola that tallied thousands of confirmed and suspected cases,[19] and spread to neighboring countries before being contained by a massive vaccination campaign.[20][21]
History
Carlos Finlay, a Cuban doctor and scientist, proposed in 1881 that yellow fever might be transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct human contact.[22][23] Since the losses from yellow fever in the Spanish–American War around 1890 were extremely high, Army doctors began research experiments with a team led by Walter Reed, and others. They successfully proved Finlays mosquito hypothesis. Yellow fever was the first virus shown to be transmitted by mosquitoes.[24]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Yellow fever Fact sheet N°100". World Health Organization. May 2013. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
- ↑ "CDC: Yellow fever—Symptoms and treatment". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ↑ "Yellow fever". WHO. Archived from the original on 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
- ↑ Control of Communicable Diseases Manual (20th ed.). Amer Public Health Assn. 2015. ISBN 978-0-87553-018-5.
- ↑ Lindenbach, B. D.; et al. (2007). "Flaviviridae: The Viruses and Their Replication". In Knipe, D. M.; P. M. Howley (eds.). Fields Virology (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 1101. ISBN 978-0-7817-6060-7.
- ↑ Sampath A, Padmanabhan R (January 2009). "Molecular targets for flavivirus drug discovery". Antiviral Research. 81 (1): 6–15. doi:10.1016/j.antiviral.2008.08.004. PMC 2647018. PMID 18796313.
- ↑ Fontenille D, Diallo M, Mondo M, Ndiaye M, Thonnon J (1997). "First evidence of natural vertical transmission of yellow fever virus in Aedes aegypti, its epidemic vector". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 91 (5): 533–5. doi:10.1016/S0035-9203(97)90013-4. PMID 9463659.
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- ↑ Quaresma JA, Barros VL, Pagliari C, Fernandes ER, Guedes F, Takakura CF, Andrade HF, Vasconcelos PF, Duarte MI (2006). "Revisiting the liver in human yellow fever: virus-induced apoptosis in hepatocytes associated with TGF-beta, TNF-alpha and NK cells activity". Virology. 345 (1): 22–30. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2005.09.058. PMID 16278000.
- ↑ "Diagnostic Testing | Yellow Fever | CDC". www.cdc.gov. 15 January 2019. Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ↑ Louie, Ted (2021). Viral Hemorrhagic fevers. StatPearls. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Tolle, Michael A. (1 April 2009). "Mosquito-borne Diseases". Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care. 39 (4): 97–140. doi:10.1016/j.cppeds.2009.01.001. ISSN 1538-5442. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- ↑ Barrett AD, Teuwen DE (June 2009). "Yellow fever vaccine – how does it work and why do rare cases of serious adverse events take place?". Current Opinion in Immunology. 21 (3): 308–13. doi:10.1016/j.coi.2009.05.018. PMID 19520559.
- ↑ WHO | Yellow fever vaccination booster not needed Archived 2013-06-09 at the Wayback Machine. Who.int (2013-05-17). Retrieved on 2014-05-12.
- ↑ Monath, Thomas P. (April 2008). "Treatment of yellow fever". Antiviral Research. 78 (1): 116–124. doi:10.1016/j.antiviral.2007.10.009. ISSN 0166-3542. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ↑ Mangat, Rupinder; Louie, Ted (2022). "Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers". StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ↑ Barnett, Elizabeth D. (15 March 2007). "Yellow fever: epidemiology and prevention". Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 44 (6): 850–856. doi:10.1086/511869. ISSN 1537-6591. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ↑ Gianchecchi, Elena; Cianchi, Virginia; Torelli, Alessandro; Montomoli, Emanuele (27 February 2022). "Yellow Fever: Origin, Epidemiology, Preventive Strategies and Future Prospects". Vaccines. 10 (3): 372. doi:10.3390/vaccines10030372. ISSN 2076-393X. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
- ↑ Kraemer, Moritz U. G.; Faria, Nuno R.; Reiner, Robert C.; Golding, Nick; Nikolay, Birgit; Stasse, Stephanie; Johansson, Michael A.; Salje, Henrik; Faye, Ousmane; Wint, G. R. William; Niedrig, Matthias; Shearer, Freya M.; Hill, Sarah C.; Thompson, Robin N.; Bisanzio, Donal; Taveira, Nuno; Nax, Heinrich H.; Pradelski, Bary S. R.; Nsoesie, Elaine O.; Murphy, Nicholas R.; Bogoch, Isaac I.; Khan, Kamran; Brownstein, John S.; Tatem, Andrew J.; Oliveira, Tulio de; Smith, David L.; Sall, Amadou A.; Pybus, Oliver G.; Hay, Simon I.; Cauchemez, Simon (1 March 2017). "Spread of yellow fever virus outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2015–16: a modelling study". The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 17 (3): 330–338. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30513-8. ISSN 1473-3099. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- ↑ "Yellow Fever – China". World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ↑ Woodall, J.P.; Yuill, T.M. (July 2016). "Why is the yellow fever outbreak in Angola a 'threat to the entire world'?". International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 48: 96–97. doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2016.05.001. PMID 27163382.
- ↑ Carlos Juan Finlay (presented: August 14, 1881; published: 1882) "El mosquito hipoteticamente considerado como agente de transmission de la fiebre amarilla" Archived 2017-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Chaves-Carballo E (2005). "Carlos Finlay and yellow fever: triumph over adversity". Mil Med. 170 (10): 881–5. doi:10.7205/milmed.170.10.881. PMID 16435764.
- ↑ Barrett, Alan D.T.; Higgs, Stephen (1 January 2007). "Yellow Fever: A Disease that Has Yet to be Conquered". Annual Review of Entomology. 52 (1): 209–229. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.52.110405.091454. ISSN 0066-4170. Retrieved 8 April 2022.