ENTO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aedes Aegypti, Yellow Fever, Internal Bleeding
6 Oct 2016
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Yellow fever: aedes aegypti is also the vector. Spread to the new world through the slave trade. The water storage for ships were perfect places for the mosquito larvae. Also a disease found in primates - important in the transmission cycle. 90% of cases found in africa (about 200,000 cases per year) Yellow jack - ag showed that there was a case of yellow fever on a ship. this would signal for the ships quarantine. Serious cases: seizures, bloody nose/gums -> liver damage & jaundice. Transmitted to humans near rural areas at the edge of forests w/ mosquitos (africa) Africa has a rural cycle while south america does not. No yellow fever in asia - not sure why. To control aedes aegypti, governments tend to use insecticide and spray down breeding sites indoors and outdoors to reduce larvae numbers as well. There is a fear of urban epidemics occurring.
