Yellow Fever and Chikungunya Fever Are Not Currently Endemic in the United

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Essay

Yellow fever and chikungunya fever are not currently endemic in the United States.Is it possible that they could become established in the future? What factors would play a role? Be sure to include a comparison of the causative agents and vectors in your answer.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A series of values, calculated from sample measurements, speculated to hold within it the unknown parameter of a population.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Sample Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a given set of data from a sample.

Hypotheses

Proposed explanations made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.