Yellow fever is a disease that is a insect born tropical disease. Yellow disease is an arbovirus called Flaviviridae, which is a small RNA virus which is transmitted by mosquitoes. The mosquitoes that can transmit the disease are the Aedes aegypti, Aedes africanus, and Haemagogus. Central America, the northern half of South America and Central Africa are main targets of Yellow fever.(askjeeves.com) In the late 1800’s, yellow fever was huge in the Caribbean’…showed first 75 words of 1255 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1255 total…chance to get yellow fever. Around 200,000 cases of yellow fever and around 30,000 deaths are estimated per year. There are so many times that yellow fever is not reported that so many more lives are taken. Asia is one region where not many cases are reported because they do not get the virus for some odd reason. Asia should be one place with many cases be cause there are many mosquitoes and primates present in Asia.