Yellow fever in the Americas
The looming threat of yellow fever to North America - ScienceDirect
The aim of this article is to underline that the preventive YFV measures, such as vaccination, need to be carefully revised in order to minimize the risks of ...
Yellow Fever: 100 Years of Discovery | Global Health - JAMA Network
Before the end of the decade, the disease had spread throughout Central America, finally stopping near the border of Guatemala and Mexico. In ...
Reports on the yellow fever epidemic, 1793
Between August 1 and November 9, 1793, approximately 11,000 people contracted yellow fever in the US capital of Philadelphia. Of that number, 5,000 people, ...
Aedes aegypti, a short-winged household mosquito that breeds in standing water, transmits urban yellow fever, the classic epidemic form of the disease. Various ...
Yellow Fever in the Americas - Nature
IN a recent paper (Bol. Of. San. Panamericana, 21, 320 ; 1942), Dr. Wilbur A. Sawyer, director of the Division of International Health, ...
American Fevers, American Plagues | Science History Institute
From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever visited the United States every year. ... The fever also chased the government from Philadelphia and disrupted ...
Yellow fever | Cause, Symptoms, & Treatment - Britannica
aegypti. Reed was further able to show that mosquitoes were the only vector of the disease. Reed's discoveries were quickly taken up by American ...
Yellow Fever - Insects, Disease, and Histroy | Montana State University
Yellow fever ravaged Europeans in the New World. Buckley (1985) stated, "The West Indies was, quite simply, a deathtrap for whites without immunity to yellow ...
Yellow Fever - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Yellow fever, caused by the yellow fever virus, is a mosquito-borne flavivirus disease. Almost all yellow fever occurs in tropical South America and Saharan ...
Yellow Fever Virus (YFV) - Florida Department of Health
Yellow fever currently occurs only in tropical regions of Africa and parts of South America. The last epidemic in North America occurred in New ...
Yellow Fever | Johns Hopkins Medicine
The CDC advises the vaccine for people 9 months and older who are traveling to or living in areas at risk for yellow fever in Africa and South America. Some ...
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 | Doctors Without Borders - USA
We aim to control outbreaks through mass vaccination campaigns and community-wide insecticide spraying to kill the mosquitoes that spread the disease, and to ...
Yellow fever is common in parts of Africa and South America. In fact, in Africa about 180,000 people get it every year. Yellow fever is not ...
Yellow Fever in the Americas - History Today
Simon Harcourt-Smith describes how the Americas were plagued by Yellow Fever, borne by mosquitoes from the seventeenth century until the early twentieth. Simon ...
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, ...
Yellow Fever. Historically, yellow fever (YF) has claimed millions of lives, including many thousands in the United States. The Philadelphia epidemic of 1793, ...
Yellow fever (YF) is a virus spread by mosquitoes in parts of Africa, Central and South America, and in Trinidad in the Caribbean.
Yellow Fever: Education, Public Health, Integrated Mosquito ...
Yellow fever is an acute viral disease. The yellow fever virus is a Flavivirus with a 400-year history. The disease originated in Africa and then spread to ...
Yellow Fever | Viruses, Plagues, and History - Oxford Academic
However, during 1996, 254 cases of yellow fever resulted in 103 deaths in South America, including Brazil, where the virus is endemic, where the mosquito vector ...