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VIRAL DISEASE
Yellow Fever; Black vomit; Yellow fever virus; Yellow Plague; Yellow plague; The Yellow Fever; American Plague; Yellow jack (viral disease); Yellow-fever; Yellowfever; Saffron Scourge; Yellow fever disease; Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1855; Bronze John; YFV
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yellow-fever         
A term used by Asian women to describe European or other Western men who exclusively pursue Asian women. Frequently used as a warning to other Asian women.
I don't think he cares about you personally at all; it's just a case of yellow-fever.
yellow fever         
¦ noun a tropical virus disease transmitted by mosquitoes, which affects the liver and kidneys, causing fever and jaundice, and is often fatal.
yellow fever         
Yellow fever is a serious infectious disease that people can catch in tropical countries.
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Yellow fever

Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. 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 about 15% of 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 increased.

The disease is caused by the yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. It infects humans, other primates, and several types of mosquitoes. In cities, it is spread primarily by Aedes aegypti, a type of mosquito found throughout the tropics and subtropics. 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 mosquitoes. In areas where yellow fever is common, early diagnosis of cases and immunization of large parts of the population are important to prevent outbreaks. Once a person is infected, management is symptomatic; no specific measures are effective against the virus. Death occurs in up to half of those who get severe disease.

In 2013, yellow fever resulted in about 127,050 severe infections and 45,000 deaths worldwide, with nearly 90 percent of these occurring in Africa. Nearly a billion people live in an area of the world where the disease is common. It is common in tropical areas of the continents of South America and Africa, but not in Asia. Since the 1980s, the number of cases of yellow fever has been increasing. This is believed to be due to fewer people being immune, more people living in cities, people moving frequently, and changing climate increasing the habitat for mosquitoes.

The disease originated in Africa and spread to the Americas starting in the 17th century with the European trafficking of enslaved Africans from sub-Saharan Africa. Since the 17th century, several major outbreaks of the disease have occurred in the Americas, Africa, and Europe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, yellow fever was considered one of the most dangerous infectious diseases; numerous epidemics swept through major cities of the US and in other parts of the world.

In 1927, yellow fever virus was the first human virus to be isolated.

Pronunciation examples for yellow-fever
1. That wasn't yellow fever.
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2. and that ancient plague, yellow fever.
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3. Really, yellow fever was just Asian girls.
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4. who got yellow fever ran. Right?
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5. There could be yellow fever, Yellow Sea.
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Examples of use of yellow-fever
1. It was also under siege from another threat: yellow fever.
2. Walter Reed, an Army physician and research scientist credited with discovering that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever.
3. It had been the first major yellow fever epidemic in about 25 years.
4. "It‘s had floods, it‘s had hurricanes, yellow fever, fires, hot summers.
5. The biggest, yellow fever in 1853, killed nearly 10,000 people out of a population of 120,000.