Abstract

MEDINA-COLLADO, Carlos Alberto  and  MEJIA, Fernando. Yellow fever, two different clinical forms of the same disease: a propos of two cases. Acta méd. peruana [online]. 2016, vol.33, n.2, pp.142-145. ISSN 1728-5917.

Yellow fever is a hemorrhagic viral infectious disease transmitted by mosquito vectors and with a variable clinical presentation. Yellow fever occurs in Peru as outbreaks, in different parts of the high rainforest and the Amazon basin. In spite of having a high mortality rate, it is a preventable disease with vaccination, but travelers to endemic areas do not always get immunized. We report two cases, with two different forms of the disease in a couple of previously healthy young persons that traveled to the Peruvian central high rainforest in Chanchamayo, Junin. Every traveler to the Peruvian Amazon region must be reminded to get immunized against yellow fever.

Keywords : Yellow fever; Hepatitis viruses; Communicable diseases.

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