1. My anatomy: I am quite small as compared to many microorganisms. Members within my family are typically too small to be observed with an optical microscope. My chemical composition includes relatively few proteins and a lipid bilayer. 2. My growth and metabolism: I am an obligate parasite relying on a cellular host to reproduce. Independent of my host, I have no metabolism. 3. My genetic makeup: whether it is in the absence or in the presence of my host, the genetic information which I use to replicate myself is never in the form of DNA. As a free entity, my genetic information is encoded by a coding RNA (positive). However, I can also generate non-coding RNA during my life cycle within the cell. 4. I am fairly restricted in the hosts in which I am pathogenic, being limited to primates such as humans. 5. The symptoms associated with the disease that I cause include feeling tired, fever, weakness, headache, and a sore throat. In more severe cases, hosts will bleed from their mouths and their eyes as well as vomit blood. 6. My origins are thought to be in Africa from where I spread to the Americas through the slave trade. 7. I am not directly transmitted from primate to primate. I require a vector, which like a good acquaintance of mine the malaria causing pathogen, is the mosquito. 8. The first report of an epidemic in the Americas for which I am held responsible occurred in 1648 where I am held accountable for destroying the Yucatan Mayans. Solution The disease described here is yellow fever, which is caused by the yellow fever virus, arbovirus of genus flavivirus. The vector is mosquito Aedes aegypti..