Flaviviridae -II

Next up is Yellow fever. Now, the symptoms first.

It has an incubation period of 3-6 days

Headaches, nausea strawberry tongue, flushing of the head and neck, conjunctival injection, just to list a few.

Severe yellow fever is when the patient goes into remission after acute yellow fever

Fever, vomiting, abdominal pain, dehydration, prostration, jaundice, black vomit (coffee-ground diathesis), and bleeding from injection puncture sites. Interestingly, the virusis absent from the blood, which suggests that autoimmunity greatly influences it.

Lastly, the West Nile fever.

It originated in Uganda, discovered way back in 1937, with an epidemic in 2002 in the US. Now let's look at the checklist of symptoms:

Mainly mild to no symptoms

Fever

Headache

Body aches

Skin rash

Swollen lymph glands

Note: these are for the not so severe cases, those are listed below-

Crossing blood-brain barrier- as in it passes through the blood-barrier in the brain, residing there.

Encephalitis

Meningitis

There is no vaccination for this west nile virus and dengue, so please follow this for your sake and your loved ones. 

It's amazing what a tiny insect can do to humans. It's scary, but as long as one takes preventive measures, I'm sure everything will be alright. That's all for now. tune in for more on our blog.