Yellow
fever (YF) is an acute infectious disease caused by yellow fever virus (YFV),
which is one of the three infectious diseases of international health
regulations. YFV belongs to flavivirus, transmitted through the medium of mosquito among vertebrates.
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As molecular epidemiological data shown, YFV has seven
genotypes distribution geographically and it associates with a specific
genotype in one outbreak. YFV infection has Jungle type and city type. The type
of the jungle is transmitted in the form of monkey-mosquito-monkey. However,
human is the main source of city type. The main clinical symptoms are fever,
jaundice, hemorrhage and proteinuria, 5% to 20% of patients manifested clinical
symptoms, a small number of patients came to severe case and death. Read More>>>>>
