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The Adobe Flash Player is required in order to view this content. You can get it here: yellow feverMain Entry: yellow fever Function: noun Date: 1739 : an acute infectious disease of warm regions (as sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America) marked by sudden onset, prostration, fever, and headache and sometimes albuminuria, jaundice, and hemorrhage and caused by a flavivirus (species Yellow fever virus of the genus Flavivirus) transmitted especially by the yellow-fever mosquito 
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