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In the early days of World Cup in South Africa, a lot of talk about yellow fever. As usual, health blogs want to try to help you all to understand more about this disease which, according to official figures from the WHO, causes about 30,000 deaths each year.

Yellow fever is a disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes, including Aedes aegypti (also responsible for the bleeding), which causes every year approximately 30,000 deaths per year worldwide, according to data published on the website of World Health Organization (WHO).

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