Yellow fever

Yellow fever, known historically as yellow jack, yellow plague, or bronze john, is an acute viral disease. In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains particularly in the back, and headaches. Symptoms typically improve within five days. In some people within a day of improving, the fever comes back, abdominal pain occurs, and liver damage begins causing yellow skin. If this occurs, the risk of bleeding and kidney problems is also increased.

The disease is caused by the yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of an infected female mosquito. It infects only humans, other primates, and several species of mosquitoes. In cities, it is spread primarily by mosquitoes of the Aedes aegypti species. The virus is an RNA virus of the genus Flavivirus. The disease may be difficult to tell apart from other illnesses, especially in the early stages. To confirm a suspected case, blood sample testing with polymerase chain reaction is required.

A safe and effective vaccine against yellow fever exists and some countries require vaccinations for travelers. Other efforts to prevent infection include reducing the population of the transmitting mosquito. In areas where yellow fever is common and vaccination is uncommon, early diagnosis of cases and immunization of large parts of the population is important to prevent outbreaks. Once infected, management is symptomatic with no specific measures effective against the virus. In those with severe disease, death occurs in about half of people without treatment.

Yellow fever (disambiguation)

Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease.

Yellow fever may also refer to:

  • The Yellow Fever, fan club for New Zealand football team Wellington Phoenix FC
  • Yellow Fever (album), a 1975 blues-rock album by Hot Tuna
  • Yellow Fever!, a 2006 Latin-electronica album by Señor Coconut (Uwe Schmidt)
  • Yellow Fever (play), 1982 play by R. A. Shiomi
  • "Yellow Fever" (Supernatural), episode of the television series Supernatural
  • Yellow Fever (film), a 2011 short student film
  • "Yellow Fever", a song by Bloodhound Gang from their 1996 album One Fierce Beer Coaster
  • A slang term for Asian fetish, a sexual preference for people of Asian ancestry by people of non-Asian ancestry
  • Yellow Fever! (Señor Coconut album)

    Yellow Fever! is a 2006 tribute album by Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto (Uwe Schmidt). It is an album of covers done in a Latin American style.

    It is a tribute album dedicated to the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and is similar to his earlier Kraftwerk tribute album released in 2000. The three original members of the Yellow Magic Orchestra (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Yukihiro Takahashi) appear on this album as well as Towa Tei and Mouse on Mars.

    Between each cover song, there are small original interludes by Senor Coconut.

    Track listing

  • "My Name Is Coco (Introduction)" – 0:20
  • "Yellow Magic (Tong Poo)" [Rumba]
  • "Coco Agogo" – 0:36
  • "Limbo" [Mambo] – 3:21
  • "What Is a Coconut? (Interlude)"
  • "Behind the Mask" – 3:22
  • "El Coco Rallado (Retro Interlude)" – 0:25
  • "Pure Jam" [Mambo]
  • "Mambo Numerique"
  • "Simoon" [Bolero] – 6:48
  • "El Coco Loco" – 0:18
  • "The Madmen" [Mambo] – 3:51
  • "What Is Coconut? (Interlude)" – 0:32
  • "Music Plans" – 4:36
  • "Breaking Music (Interlude)"
  • "Rydeen" [Merengue] – 4:26
  • Podcasts:

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    Yellow Fever

    by: Rasputina

    It was a deadly yellow fever epidemic
    At first only a few where sick and then it
    Started raging bad,
    It was the wort this town has had
    It was the summer of 1853
    Only my dear old dad and me
    Escaped alive
    Escaped unscathed
    Summer of 1853
    the river reeked of mortality
    Summer of 1853
    the river reeked of mortality




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