Yellow fever

High school (ages 12+)
Environment & Earth

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/yellow-fever

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the virus genus?Flavivirus
2. What is the primary urban vector?Aedes aegypti
3. How does a mosquito spread yellow fever?Mosquitoes that carry the yellow fever virus bite people and give them the virus. The main mosquitoes that do this are Aedes aegypti and Aedes africanus.
4. What happens to a person who gets yellow fever?After a few days, a person may feel fever, chills, headache, muscle pain, and nausea. Some people get a second, more serious phase with high fever, yellow skin, vomiting, and bleeding, which can be dangerous.

Hemorrhagic Fever: A severe illness characterized by fever and bleeding, often affecting multiple organ systems.
Enzootic: Referring to a disease that is constantly present in an animal population in a particular geographic area.
Live-Attenuated Vaccine: A vaccine containing a weakened form of a virus that can no longer cause disease but still triggers an immune response.