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The outbreak of yellow fever in Barcelona in 1821. The evolutionary origins of yellow fever are most likely African. [1] [2] Phylogenetic analyses indicate that the virus originated from East or Central Africa, with transmission between primates and humans, and spread from there to West Africa. [3]
Regional arbovirus infections: California serogroup virus, Eastern equine encephalitis virus, Powassan virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, Western equine encephalitis virus: Varicella voster infection- chickenpox, shingles, and unspecified Chickenpox: Chickenpox (regional) Chickenpox (i.e., varicella) - morbidity and deaths only Chikungunya fever
There are more than 500 species of arboviruses, but in the 1930s only three were known to cause disease in humans: yellow fever virus, dengue virus and Pappataci fever virus. [202] More than 100 of such viruses are now known to cause human diseases including encephalitis. [203] Yellow fever is the most notorious disease caused by a flavivirus ...
The first human virus to be identified was the yellow fever virus. [6] In 1881, Carlos Finlay (1833–1915), a Cuban physician, first conducted and published research that indicated that mosquitoes were carrying the cause of yellow fever, [7] a theory proved in 1900 by commission headed by Walter Reed (1851–1902).
Flavivirus, renamed Orthoflavivirus in 2023, [3] is a genus of positive-strand RNA viruses in the family Flaviviridae.The genus includes the West Nile virus, dengue virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, yellow fever virus, Zika virus and several other viruses which may cause encephalitis, [4] as well as insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs) such as cell fusing agent virus (CFAV), Palm Creek ...
List of people who caught yellow fever; ... Yellow fever vaccine; Yellow fever virus This page was last edited on 6 December 2023, at 11:04 (UTC). ...
West Nile virus: West Nile fever: Under research [42] Trichosporon beigelii: White piedra (tinea blanca) No Yersinia pseudotuberculosis: Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection No Yersinia enterocolitica: Yersiniosis: No Yellow fever virus: Yellow fever: Yes: Zeaspora fungus: Zeaspora: No Zika virus: Zika fever: Under research [43]
The largest outbreak of hepatitis A virus in United States history occurred among people who ate at a now-defunct Mexican food restaurant located in Monaca, Pennsylvania in late 2003. [163] Over 550 people who visited the restaurant between September and October 2003 were infected with the virus, three of whom died as a direct result. [ 163 ]