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History of Yellow Fever


Yellow fever in Africa and the Americas: a historical and ...

Yellow fever was transported during the slave trade in the 15th and 16th centuries from Africa to the Americas where the virus encountered ...

Yellow Fever - History of Medicine - Library Guides at UChicago

Books · Yellow Fever, Black Goddess by Christopher Wills; Heather Mimnaugh (Editor) · Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South by John H.

Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia | August 21, 1793 | HISTORY

Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia. On August 21, 1793, prominent Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush alerts the city's mayor that an ...

History of yellow fever - Wikipedia

The first outbreaks of disease that were probably yellow fever occurred in the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, on Barbados in 1647 and Guadeloupe in 1648.

History of the discovery of the mode of transmission of yellow fever ...

This essay documents and examines the historical circumstances and events surrounding the discovery of the mode of transmission of yellow fever virus in Cuba.

Yellow Fever - Texas State Historical Association

Yellow Fever in Galveston, Republic of Texas, 1839; An Account of the Great Epidemic. Together with a biographical sketch by Chauncey D. Leake, and stories of ...

The Yellow Fever Epidemic - Historical Society of Pennsylvania

In 1793, Philadelphia was struck with the worst outbreak of Yellow Fever ever recorded in North America. The fever took a devastating toll on the city as ...

Yellow Fever History Overview - Savannah, GA

Yellow Fever History Overview. Yellow fever, an acute infectious disease, is one of the great epidemic diseases of the tropical world, though it sometimes ...

Yellow Fever - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

Yellow Fever broke out in epidemic proportion in 1793, 1797, 1798, and 1799. The most severe, and one of the most deadly in American history, occurred in 1793, ...

History of Yellow Fever - LibGuides at Duquesne University

Yellow Fever is a viral disease of the genus Flavivirus that is spread through the bites of infected mosquitoes. The disease ravaged communities ...

Yellow Fever - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

Symptoms of yellow fever usually appear 3 to 6 days after the bite of an infected mosquito. In the initial phase, they include fever, muscle pain, headache, ...

The History of Yellow Fever - MIT Press

François Delaporte's History of Yellow Fever is a detective story whose protagonist is an idea rather than a person. Most importantly, while tracing this fa ...

Today in History - August 27 - The Library of Congress

Prior to these findings, epidemics of yellow fever were common in the American South. Uncertain of how the disease was transmitted, many people would leave the ...

Yellow Fever | Viruses, Plagues, and History - Oxford Academic

Yellow fever was an endemic disease of West Africa that traveled to the New World and elsewhere aboard trading ships with their cargoes of slaves. The black ...

The Norfolk and Portsmouth Yellow Fever Epidemic

The yellow fever epidemic that struck Norfolk and Portsmouth in the summer and fall of 1855 was one of the worst in U.S. history. The disease was brought to ...

About Yellow Fever - CDC

Yellow fever virus is spread to people by the bite of an infected mosquito. It is found in tropical and subtropical areas of Africa and South America.

Yellow Fever | History of Vaccines

A mosquito-borne infection that continues to threaten the lives of people living in tropical areas.

American Fevers, American Plagues | Science History Institute

The first began when yellow fever struck Philadelphia in 1793, killing 5,000 of the city's 50,000 inhabitants, and continued to 1805 in a series ...

Yellow Fever: International History, U.S. Risk, Vaccines

Yellow fever is a viral infection that people pick up from mosquitoes. It causes liver issues, skin, and eye yellowing.

The Fever That Struck New York - Smithsonian Magazine

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, many European and American medical authorities suspected yellow fever spread through pestilential vapors emitted by ...