Yellow fever is caused by the flavivirus, which is a virus. This virus can cause outbreaks very big throughout Africa and tropical America.The disease yellow fever is spread through mosquitoes feeding on humans and through that process they give it to the human that they have fed on.It is believed that the virus was conceived in Africa and that the ships brought over the disease to America through the slave trade.The type of mosquitoes that usually get infected are Aedes or Haemagogus mosquitoes. These mosquitoes get infected by feeding off of infected primates, keep in mind this could be non-human or human. …show more content…
It usually takes 3-6 days until the illness appears. Although the mass of people infected with the virus either has only mild illness or no illness at all.To diagnose, they have to find things based on physical findings, laboratory testing,symptoms, and travel history. Though if a person does have mild illness,they have a fever which is abnormally high body temperatures usually followed up by headache and shivering and chills(which makes you feel really cold), which is your normal fever so you could tell how hard it is to identify that you do have yellow fever. More symptoms are, nausea which is when you feel really dizzy, and vomiting.Other symptoms of the yellow fever, back pain and general body