Yellow Fever: Occurrence, Transmission, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, Supportive Management and Prevention

A communicable disease note on yellow fever as an acute arbovirus infection and a zoonosis of monkeys. It takes the occurrence and the vector, the transmission cycle, the clinical features from the sudden onset with rigors, high fever and a slow pulse to the bleeding tendency, jaundice from liver cell necrosis, nephritis with albuminuria and the coma of severe cases, and the diagnosis on the rising temperature with a low pulse rate, serology for antibodies from the fourth day and virus isolation in the blood in the first four days. Management is supportive because there is no specific drug, with isolation, rest and the measures that stop further transmission.