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An yellow fever virus causes yellow fever.
Yellow fever has that name because about 15% of the cases progress to a toxic phase including liver damage and jaundice. Jaundice causes the skin to turn yellow, hence the name.
Transmitted by mosquitoes, yellow fever is a tropical viral disease that damages the liver and kidneys by causing fever and jaundice. Yellow fever is often fatal.
yellow fever is characterized by high fever, jaundice, and often gastrointestinal hemorrhaging...
They named it yellow fever because one of the symptoms is liver failure that causes jaundice of the skin and eyes. Jaundice causes a yellow tint.
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Yellow fever is a disease spread by the bite of a female mosquito. The virus that causes Yellow Fever is an RNA virus of the genus Flavivirus.
Yellow fever is associated with toxic hepatic necrosis, which means that liver damage occurs. This causes a build up of bilirubin in a patients body, which gives skin/eyes a yellow appearance, known as jaundice or icterus.
Fever is most often a sign of infection.
Yellow Fever didn't become a virus. It is caused by a virus that causes the skin to look yellow because the liver is damaged.
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