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Realistic yellow fever symptoms - extremely gory question?


I've just read a book where a character dies of yellow fever.

She is talking normally, although ill in bed, but in the time it takes for another character to reach the door of the bedroom she is dying horrifically. Black liquid is pouring from her eyes, nose, mouth and ears. She is dead within minutes.

Now, I know that you can have black vomit with yellow fever. This is because of intestinal haemorrhage.

BUT - black liquid coming from the eyes and ears? Is this realistic, and if so, what would be causing it?

I am pleased to say that I'm not showing any symptoms of yellow fever myself and haven't been bitten by any mosquitoes lately.

I should be safe! *touches wood*

i suppose if your body is haemorrhaging then maybe>???
hope you havent got it!!

Yellow Fever

Description. An acute, infectious, hemorrhagic viral disease. It is characterized by sudden onset of fever, bradycardia, and headache; with jaundice and hemorrhaging occuring in severe cases.

Yellow-fever, a flavivirus and member of the Arbovirus family, is an enveloped virus. It contains three structural proteins; the envelope (E) protein is the major component of the virion surface. The antigenic elements of this envelope protein inhibit red blood cell clotting, while other elements recognize and bind to host-cell receptors.

The yellow fever isolates appear to be genetically stable. Genetic drift occurs within each genotype; the envelope gene appears to mutate randomly at a rate of 2.2 bases per year,

Yellow fever is often called a classic hemorrhagic fever whose history is the history of the New World. Epidemics of yellow fever followed the trade ships from Africa to the Americas, and centuries of disease resulted. It is thought that the virus was brought to the New World via water casks and water barrels in which infected mosquitoes had laid their eggs.

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