MCQs in Tropical Medicine

Rob Skelly DTM+H FRCP

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Yellow fever.

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ABORTIVE INFECTIONS ARE THE RULE. Severe classic infections occur in only 10-20% of those infected. 20-50% of severe infections are fatal. Yellow fever is spread by culicine mosquitoes: Aedes aegypti (peri-domestic) and Aedes haemogogus (sylvatic).

Epidemics are controlled by mass vaccination and use of insecticides.