People with Yellow Fever

Yellow fever is widespread in tropical regions of Africa and South America and the numbers of epidemics are increasing. There’re over 30,000 fatalities of people with yellow fever a year but these are only the recorded deaths, there is little data on people with Yellow fever. The disease spans around 33 different countries putting millions of residents at risk of this potentially fatal disease.

International travel has become a concern for the World Health Organisation as it’s feared that this dramatically increases the risk of spreading to countries such as Asia. In order to protect countries without yellow fever incidents, very strict travel rules are in place and all travellers to and from risk areas must be vaccinated.

It is estimated there are at least 200,000 people with yellow fever every year and it is highly likely these number are actually significantly higher then the records show. There are two different kinds of Yellow fever, these are jungle and urban. Urban Yellow fever is contracted by mosquitoes in urban areas biting infected humans and transferring to humans whereas Jungle Yellow Fever is from monkeys to humans. It is more common to contract Urban Yellow fever unless you work in tropical rain forests.