jungle yellow fever

pathology
Also known as: sylvatic yellow fever

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transmission

  • Aedes aegypti
    In yellow fever: The course of the disease

    …urban-dwelling) Aedes aegypti mosquito; (2) jungle, or sylvatic, yellow fever, in which transmission is from a mammalian host (usually a monkey) to humans via any one of a number of forest-living mosquitoes (e.g., Haemagogus in South America, A. africanus in Africa); and (3) intermediate, or savannah, yellow fever, in which…

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