Does anyone know the Disease yellow fever's scientific name?It doesn't have one. It's a virus, so it doesn't have taxonomy. It is, in all seriousness, called yellow fever virus.
It's a flavivirus, a member of the Arbovirus family, is an enveloped virus. The disease is a hemorrhagic viral infection.
And it's not the same thing as malaria. Malaria Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease that has caused large epidemics in Africa and the Americas. It can be recognized from historic texts stretching back 400 years. Infection causes a wide spectrum of disease, from mild symptoms to severe illness and death. The "yellow" in the name is explained by the jaundice that affects some patients. Although an effective vaccine has been available for 60 years, the number of people infected over the last two decades has increased and yellow fever is now a serious public health issue again.
Yellow fever virus (Website 1):
1. GenBank Taxonomy No.: 11089
2. Description: Despite the availability of a safe and efficacious vaccine, yellow fever (YF) remains a disease of significant public health importance, with an estimated 200,000 cases and 30,000 deaths annually. The disease is endemic in tropical regions of Africa and South America; nearly 90% of YF cases and deaths occur in Africa. It is a significant hazard to unvaccinated travelers to these endemic areas. Virus transmission occurs between humans, mosquitoes, and monkeys. The mosquito, the true reservoir of YF, is infected throughout its life, and can transmit the virus transovarially through infected eggs. Man and monkeys, on the other hand, play the role of temporary amplifiers of the virus available for mosquito infection. Recent increases in the density and distribution of the urban mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti, as well as the rise in air travel increase the risk of introduction and spread of yellow fever to North and Central America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and Oceania (Tomori, 2004) YF virus, the first arthropod-borne human virus to be isolated, is the prototype member of the Flavivirus genus of the Flaviviridae family (Tomori, 2004).
3. Variant(s):
* Yellow fever virus (STRAIN 17D) (Website 2):
o GenBank Taxonomy No.: 11090
o Parent: Yellow fever virus
o Description: In 1927, Mahaffy and Bauer of the West Africa Rockefeller Yellow Fever Commission (RYFC) isolated YF virus by inoculation the blood of a Ghanaian patient into rhesus monkeys. This strain, the Asibi strain, was attenuated by passage in chick embryo tissue and the modified (17D) virus later became the source of human YF vaccine (Tomori, 2004).
* Yellow fever virus (strain 1899/81) (Website 3):
o GenBank Taxonomy No.: 31641
o Parent: Yellow fever virus
o Description: Strain 1899/81 (human isolate from Peru) (Miller and Mitchell, 1986)
* Yellow fever virus (STRAIN PASTEUR 17D-204) (Website 4):
o GenBank Taxonomy No.: 11091
o Parent: Yellow fever virus
o Description: The 17D yellow fever vaccine virus family is the foundation for both the 17D-204 lineage and the 17DD lineage. Vaccine type 17D-204 is used in both the United States and Australia, whereas vaccine type 17DD is used in Brazil (Cetron et al., 2002).
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