Yellow fever
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Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease that occurs mainly in the tropics.
Yellow fever occurs only in the tropical areas of Central Africa, southern Panama, and South America.
Some people with yellow fever have no or mild symptoms, but others have more severe symptoms such as yellow skin (jaundice), fever, headache, muscle aches, and bleeding.
Doctors diagnose yellow fever by growing (culturing) the virus, by doing blood tests to detect antibodies to the virus, or by using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques to help identify the virus -
an infectious tropical disease that causes the skin to become yellow and can result in death
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