YELLOW FEVER


Meaning of YELLOW FEVER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1739

: an acute infectious disease of warm regions (as sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America) marked by sudden onset, prostration, fever, and headache and sometimes albuminuria, jaundice, and hemorrhage and caused by a flavivirus (species Yellow fever virus of the genus Flavivirus ) transmitted especially by the yellow-fever mosquito

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