Yellow fever other feverish illnesses such as malaria. Other viral hemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola virus, Lassa virus, Marburg virus, and Junin virus, must be excluded as the cause. Personal prevention of yellow fever includes vaccination and avoidance of mosquito bites in areas where yellow fever is endemic. Institutional measures for prevention of yellow fever include vaccination programmes and measures of controlling mosquitoes. Programmes for distribution of mosquito nets for use in homes are providing reductions in cases of both malaria and yellow fever. Use of EPA-registered insect repellent is recommended when outdoors. Exposure for even a short time is enough for
Bunyamwera virus Bunyamwera virus The Bunyamwera virus (BUNV) is a negative-sense, single-stranded enveloped RNA virus. It is the type species of the "Orthobunyavirus" genus, in the "Bunyavirales" order. Bunyamwera virus can infect both humans and "Aedes aegypti" (yellow fever mosquito). It is named for Bunyamwera, a town in western Uganda, where the type species was isolated in 1943. Reassortant viruses derived from Bunyamwera virus, such as "Ngari virus", which has been associated with large outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fever in Kenya and Somalia. The genetic structure of "Bunyamwera virus" is typical for "Bunyavirales" viruses, which are a family of enveloped negative-sense, single-stranded