Yellow fever

General: Acute infectious disease of short duration and extremely variable severity.

Ocular: Lid edema; orbital pain; subconjunctival, vitreal, and anterior chamber hemorrhages; mydriasis; optic neuritis; partial optic atrophy.

Clinical: Fever; headache; nausea; epistaxis; relative bradycardia; albuminuria; convulsions; tongue shows red margins with white furred center; copious hemorrhages; anuria; delirium; slow pulse; jaundice; 'black vomit'; hematemesis; coma; death.

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