Yellow fever And How Fast It Spreads

This action project is for my math and science course called Disease. The purpose of this action project was to show a moving graph of how the disease we chose evolves over time. The epidemic I chose was Yellow fever because it sounded very interesting and I wanted to learn more about it. I learned a lot about Yellow fever and how it can spread very quickly. I am proud of the graph I made because it was very hard to find all the data to put into it, and in the end I finally got the data I needed and made the graph.

Hyper link to data

Introduction to disease

Yellow fever is a transmittable disease that is mainly found in Africa and South America. Yellow fever is a disease that is transmitted by infected mosquitos. The way it is transmitted is, when a mosquito bites a monkey that is infected with Yellow fever it will then become infected and any human it comes in contact with can also be affected. When a person becomes infected with mild Yellow fever they experience symptoms such as, sudden onset of fever, chills, severe headache, back pain, general body aches, nausea, and vomiting, fatigue, and weakness. when a person is infected with a more sever case of Yellow fever they may have symptoms such as, high fever, jaundice, bleeding, and eventually shock and failure of multiple organs. If you are young or old you are more susceptible to a more severe case of yellow fever. Another risk factor is, if you live in a place with a lot of forests you will come in contact with mosquitos more and be more at risk of transmission.

2009

In the graph above it shows the Yellow fever cases and deaths in 2009. I started my graph in 2009 and what my research shows is that the cases and death rate starts out very low. In  2009 DR of the Congo started at 1 and Cameroon started at 13 in cases. For Sudan it was much different because it actually started at a higher number which was 36. Since Yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitos and the cases were low, I am guessing that not many people got bitten by infected mosquitos the year of 2009 

 



 

 

 

2011

 

 



 

Between the years or 2009-2011 Sudan fluctuated mildly in deaths, but the number of cases grew rapidly as two years passed. DR of the Congo and Cameroon went at a more linear rate in deaths and also in cases. One risk factor that is important for the rise in Sudan is age. 41.4% of the population in Sudan are kids and usually kids have a lower metabolism and also spend more time outside and are more likely to get bitten by a mosquito with Yellow fever. 

 

 

2013

 

 



 

 

In the years leading up to 2013 the rates in all the countries fluctuated a lot. Sudan in specifics rose to about 733 cases in the year 2013 and then dropped down to about 55. Also in Sudan, the deaths went down rapidly from over 100 to below 50. One thing that caused the spike in deaths in 2012 in Sudan was the access to vaccines. What I found from research is that in Sudan in 2012 they did not have a lot of access to vaccines. In 2013 there was a surprising rise in deaths in Cameroon and DR of the Congo. As DR of the Congo and Cameroon rose, there was a huge drop in  deaths in 2013

 

 

 

Citations

 

 

"Increased Risk of Urban Yellow Fever Outbreaks in Africa." WHO. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2014.

 

 

"Yellow Fever Outbreak in Sudan | HealthMap." Yellow Fever Outbreak in Sudan | HealthMap. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2014.