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A student travels to Brazil by boat on the Amazon River, without visiting the doctor prior to traveling for recommended vaccinations for travel to South America. The student becomes ill during the trip and is quarantined. Which of the diseases listed below does the student most likely have?

A) hantavirus
B) yellow fever
C) Ebola
D) Q fever

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Answer:

The correct answer is B) Yellow fever

Step-by-step explanation:

Yellow fever is a viral disease and this disease is spread by the bite of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that are found in Brazil and many other South American countries and the chances of getting yellow fever gets increase when anyone travels through amazon river.

The symptoms of yellow fever disease are fever, headache, back pain, nausea, and in some people it causes liver damage which results in yellowing of the skin.

So if anyone is traveling to Brazil in South America then he must be vaccinated for yellow fever which is also recommended by the WHO and CDC. Therefore yellow fever would be the disease that the student would most likely to have.

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