Fever 1793
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Yellow Fever
Philadelphia 1793
Books by Laurie Haulse Anderson
yellow fever
By: Marissa BLIZARD
Ten days or more of yellow fever and you'll probably die!
Yellow fever
There are cases
of yellow fever each year infecting over 200,000 people
The fever causes deaths of 30,000 people
There is no specific treatment to cure the fever
Less than 50% die from it this year
Cases keep increasing over the past 20 years
Symptoms include the following: fever, muscle pain, backache, headache,shivers, loss of appetite, and nausea or vomiting
Symptoms disappear usually during three to four days
People usually die when they have the fever for more than ten days
44 countries in Africa and Latin America are at risk
The people in Latin America are at great risk
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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs100/en/
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