The Yellow Fever Virus

While reading An American Plague, I noticed an interesting detail that Yellow Fever could actually be prevented. Murphy (2003) notes that doctors noted the symptoms of the sick patients from the disease Yellow Fever. Some of the symptoms were pain in the back and painful aching in the body. This detail led me to wonder if there was a way that you could prevent Yellow fever. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that wearing bug repellent will reduce the chances for getting bit by a mosquito and they also talk about having more clothing on your body will also help because then mosquito's can not bite you. The article also talks about vaccines because we know have a yellow fever vaccine and that will cure yellow fever.

In this chapter it talks about how Catherine LeMaigre was dying, and dying horribly and painfully. The two physicians sent for their esteemed colleague Dr. Benjamin Rush. They were trying to find out if they could stop the plague from spreading.

In the short film, Yellow Fever, Ng'endo Mukii showcases the struggle of conforming to Western beauty standards as an African woman through various 4-D mediums including animation, pixilation, performance. She accomplishes this by showing how most of the people she knows of the same demographic, including her and her siblings are taught to change their hair and skin color through bleaching in order to become more “manageable”. The main argument the visuals in conjunction with the audio narrative present was that of those who are marginalized and are forced or are encouraged to sacrifice nuances of their identity. In an interview regarding the work, Ng’endo stated in an interview in Indie Wire she believes “skin and the body are often distorted

France was at war with many countries. John Adams later would write 10,000 citizens marched in Philadelphia, threatening to drag Washington and make him declare war. Adams thought that the yellow fever prevented chaos. At the start, people believed that the two-thousand five-hundred city’s African-Americans were immune to the fever. Philadelphians initially blamed the outbreak on refugees from France. People believe the disease spread person to person. Recommendation for ridding of the disease were smoking tobacco, cleaning yourself with vinegar, carrying a tarred rope, covering the floors of rooms with a two-inch-deep layer of dirt, chewing garlic, hanging a bag of camphor around your neck, lighting bonfires, and setting off guns in the

John Smith through the use of “mosquito control” destroyed mosquito breeding areas, which was copied around the globe. Local economies benefited mightily, Smith spoke of an example that a 50$ breeding area removal returned a property value of 10,000$. This idea of establishing local drainage communities soon became a competition of civil pride. Frenchman de Lesseps, attempted to build the Panama Canal, discrediting the threat of deadly disease. Two short years after the construction was underway, even the outsiders began to recognize the death tolls, even despite the officials’ best efforts to cover up these deaths. In 1884, it is acknowledged that two out of every three Europeans died from yellow fever or malaria.

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, as the country grew and trade flourished, periodic epidemics struck regions of the nation as population density increased. Outbreaks of influenza, cholera took over the nation, and in the south, one of the most prevalent was yellow fever. Due to these diseases, a lot of public health policies were either created or changed to better suit the new issues arising. In this essay, I will argue that the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 brought upon many changes in the health realm in terms of public sanitation. In order to prove the epidemic s place in the history of health policies, I will be discussing the creation of the new sewer system, waste disposal techniques, and other projects created.

224 years ago, in 1793, a yellow fever epidemic roared over Philadelphia. This was a devastating time for all Philadelphians. Although there were no cures, there were treatments. There were two types of doctors back in this time; the French doctors and the American. Mosquitos are the cause of this. They (the mosquitos) got infected by the refuges. The mosquitos spread the yellow fever to mankind. This epidemic killed a couple thousand people.

Most people don’t know that 10% of people that get Yellow Fever die from it. However some viruses are more harmful than others which may scare some people. The many symptoms of Yellow Fever may make this viral infection seem frightening even though there is a treatment available, the history is quite unique, but how it is spread may surprise people.

“It seems you gentlemen have not the idea of the real reason that Yellow Fever has arrived, due to this fact I suppose i’ll have to educate you on the matter.” I started, “Yellow Fever, it is a quite common thing in Cuba, Now ask yourself, where did those coffee beans come from, and what proof is there that they give the recipient of their smell the deadly fever? Now before you say anything, I’ve received word of a death on this side of town, as a matter of fact, about as close as the blacksmith who’s hammer you hear now. So assuming you’re right about the fever spreading due to those coffee beans, how would this death have occurred? Was the victim of this fever near those coffee beans? No, she wasn’t. Actually, she worked here, as a servant

In conclusion, the West Nile Virus is not that dangerous to our society today. Even if someone does get bitten by a mosquito that is carrying the virus, only about 20 percent of people will get the disease. Even if they do get the disease it is usually just a little sickness that you will overcome. The most dangerous part of this disease is when it affects the brain, but this is a 1 percent chance. There has been various incidents in the U.S. There has been about 44,000 cases of West Nile virus have been reported in the United States since

Yellow Fever is a dangerous viral infection. Yellow fever gets its name from the fact that the disease typically causes the skin to become yellow as well as producing a fever. Brian R. Shmaefsky, author of the book Yellow Fever explains that "Yellow fever is also known by other names. Throughout history yellow fever was called black vomit, vomito negro, sylvatic fever, and Yellow Jack. Black vomit, or vomito negro, is known as very dark vomit that many infected people produce. Sylvatic fever gets his name from the fact that the disease is common in areas with jungles or forests. The name Yellow Jack was given by the newspapers because yellow fever was perceived to be as destructive as any enemy troop". In cartoons the disease was pictured as a skeleton wearing a yellow military jacket. The Virus is transmitted by mosquitoes in tropical regions, so it cannot be spread person to person by direct contact. The disease is principally spread in tropical regions of Africa and America. Every year it is recorded 200,000 cases of Yellow Fever, and 30,000 of that die. However, because of the poor record-keeping, the data recorded do not reflect the reality. Moreover, in the last years, epidemics are increasing the number of people affected by Yellow Fever. Even though there are ways to prevent it, it is dangerous because it can cause death and also it has many symptoms.

Yellow fever is a deadly disease caused by a viral infection that is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. Although it is found to be most common in males in their early 20's, yellow fever can affect any sex, race, or age. Since yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes, it is most often found in areas such as Central America, the northern half of South America, and Central Africa where mosquitoes are abundant. The reason why it is found so often in these

Yellow fever spread through the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can quickly transmit the disease from host to host. Either yellow fever or Ebola merely being mentioned can bring a great deal of panic. Diagnosing both of them though is easy with both of their unique malignant symptoms. The first symptoms of yellow fever are muscle pains and an intense fever followed by a short respite. The fever then returns even more deadly, with vomiting of bile and the skin and eyes turning a ghastly yellow, giving the

Mosquitoes pass malaria to humans through their salivary glands. Once the parasites have entered the blood stream, they go to the liver. In the liver they mature and undergo reproduction, forming merozoites. These merozoites enter the blood stream and inject themselves into red blood cells. Once inside the blood cells, they reproduce rapidly and within forty-eight to seventy-two hours, the blood cell bursts, releasing hemoglobin into the blood stream. It is the destruction of these blood cells and the hemoglobin released into the blood stream that actually causes most of the symptoms.

The influenza virus contains 8 pieces of RNA inside the cell envelope whereas the human cell also known as the host cell contains DNA. The influenza virus contains proteins known as H-protein, hemagglutinin and neuraminidase. Hemagglutinin binds onto sialic acid which can be found outside the human cell, this allows the influenza virus to enter the host cell. The RNA segment inside the virus cell is released and enters the nucleus. The RNA starts to replicate in the nucleus of the host cell. Each piece of the virus have to be transcribed into mRNA strands before it will be translated into proteins and form new viruses. The new viruses then exit the host cell by the neuraminidase which cleaves the sialic acid sugar in the membrane, releasing