There are diseases that are incurable. Of course, without them, the world would only get better, but the reality is sometimes very, very cruel. In this case, we are not talking about some kind of congenital malformations, namely about diseases that a person can pick up by accident. So to speak, by chance. Sometimes it happens that one moment decides the outcome of a lifetime, because an acquired infection can ruin everything at once, cross out fate and deprive the possibility of a normal existence.
What is yellow fever
This is a very insidious and incurable disease. It is also known as West Nile fever. Most common in South America as well as Africa. In approximately sixty percent of all cases, yellow fever is fatal. It is transmitted, as a rule, by mosquitoes and mosquitoes.
What are her symptoms and why is she so dangerous
There are two types of it:
- jungle fever;
- urban fever.
The jungle fever, for the most part, affects those young people who work in the jungle on logging. Outbreaks of the epidemic for her are not at all characteristic. In addition to mosquitoes and mosquitoes, various wild animals can carry it. Urban fever is characterized by epidemics, since in this case the person himself may also be the source of infection . It spreads very quickly and takes many lives.
Yellow fever has an incubation period that can last for four or even six days. The first symptoms are as follows:
- a sharp increase in body temperature;
- muscle pain that does not rest;
- delirium;
- nausea and vomiting;
- severe chills;
- headache.
Symptoms such as photophobia and profuse lacrimation also appear. A high temperature may not fall to ten days. The color and condition of the skin of the neck, face, and shoulders changes. Also at this stage, the tongue and oral mucosa become bright scarlet, organs such as the spleen and liver increase.
At the next stage, which lasts from one to two days, the infected person becomes much better: the fever subsides, and all other symptoms gradually begin to disappear. It is possible that she will no longer return, but this does not always happen. Often after relief, the fever returns in a more severe form. Hepatic insufficiency, bloody vomiting begins, internal bleeding appears. Death can occur within seven to nine days after the return of symptoms. Usually its cause is renal or liver failure. It can also occur due to toxic toxic shock.
A person who suffers from yellow fever must be hospitalized and quarantined. He is given antiviral and symptomatic drugs, as well as many vitamins. In fact, there is no cure for yellow fever, and during the entire treatment, doctors do not fight the infection itself, but only its symptoms (liver failure, etc.). Doctors constantly have to treat one or the other. Yellow fever cannot be completely cured, and the body suffers very much from it. Those who still managed to overcome all the main symptoms can develop such unpleasant consequences as gangrene, pneumonia, sepsis, as well as many others. These consequences can occur immediately or in a few years.
Yellow fever: vaccination
The best preventative measure in this case is vaccination. Thanks to her, the body gets the opportunity to develop a certain immunity, with which yellow fever will not be afraid of him, in just one week. The vaccine is actually very effective and allows you to protect yourself for about six to seven years.