Caring for someone with this diagnosis? Eleplan keeps diagnoses, medications, documents and every specialist in one plan.
Start free with EleplanYellow fever
ORPHA:99829Disease
Also called Bronze John · YF · Yellow Jack
What it is
Yellow fever (YF), caused by YF virus, is a zoonotic disease characterized by fever and constitutional symptoms, with the potential to progress to severe and fatal viral hemorrhagic fever with shock and multi-organ system failure.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000 (annual incidence, Europe)
- Age of onset
- All ages
- Classified as
- Disease
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Very common80–99%
5Common30–79%
18- Abdominal pain
- Abnormal bleeding
- Acute kidney injury
- Arthralgia
- Bradycardia
- Chills
- Elevated circulating aspartate aminotransferase concentration
- Elevated circulating creatine kinase concentration
- Elevated circulating creatinine concentration
- Excessive bleeding after a venipuncture
- Headache
- Hematemesis
- Increased circulating interleukin 6 concentration
- Metabolic acidosis
- Myalgia
- Pancreatic hyperplasia
- Renal insufficiency
- Vomiting
Sometimes5–29%
17- Acute pancreatitis
- Capillary leak
- Coma
- Decreased serum bicarbonate concentration
- Diarrhea
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- Hypofibrinogenemia
- Increased total leukocyte count
and 9 more in this range
These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
ICD-10 codes
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
Powered by Eleplan
A rare diagnosis is just the start. Eleplan keeps the whole care plan in one place.
Diagnoses, medications, documents, appointments, and the whole care team — organized and always in sync, so you are not retelling the same story to every new specialist. With Ellie, your AI care assistant, on top of it. Free to start.