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The second coming of urban yellow fever in the Americas


Yellow Fever and the Strategy of the Mexican-American War

Philadelphia was struck eleven times, one outbreak in 1793 killed 10% of the city's population. Boston and New York were ravaged seven times each. The disease ...

The next pandemic: yellow fever? - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Now mostly affecting Africa and South America, this mosquito-borne disease could spread at any moment, threatening public health and economic ...

Time-line of the main events related to Yellow Fever (YF) and Yellow...

These efforts, together with vaccination campaigns, helped to bring yellow fever under control, and the last urban outbreak in Brazil was reported in 1942 (79) ...

Yellow Fever in Brazil: The Latest Global Health Security Threat - CSIS

First brought to the Americas from Africa in the 1600s during the slave trade, yellow fever used to kill hundreds of thousands of people ...

Yellow fever in the Americas: risks for the Caribbean islands - JLE

However, we cannot rule out that imported cases could initiate an urban cycle involving. A. aegypti [15]. Imported cases are periodically reported in. Aedes- ...

What Is Yellow Fever? Disease and Causation in Environmental ...

From there the virus spread to humans, making its way to West Africa where it eventually boarded ships, likely during the slave trade, and ...

The Worst Outbreaks in U.S. History - Healthline

1633-1634: Smallpox from European settlers · 1793: Yellow fever from the Caribbean · 1832-1866: Cholera in three waves · 1858: Scarlet fever also came in waves.

The Origins of Yellow Fever

During the 17th century, the Yellow Fever virus (and the aides aegypti vector) spread to the New World by way of the transatlantic slave trade, and it is no ...

Yellow Fever - Elsevier

since our urban centers are almost infested with Aedes aegypti, a vector of urban yellow fever.[9]. References. [1] Yellow fever in Africa and the Americas, ...

Walter Reed and the Scourge of Yellow Fever - UVA Today

It spread rapidly and could kill 20% of a city's population in just two to three months. A series of yellow fever outbreaks in Philadelphia in ...

Yellow fever as an endemic/epidemic disease and

However, vaccine policy in non-endemic coastal regions of. South America must weigh the risk of vaccine-related adverse events against the theoretical benefit.

The stranger who started an epidemic - Wellcome Collection

Yellow fever, after all, was known as the strangers' disease. Ever since the earliest city epidemics in the late 1700s, everyone had known ...

Sylvatic Cycles of Urban Arboviruses - Frontiers

... urban to sylvatic maintenance cycles in South America, as did the yellow fever virus (YFV) in the past. All these viruses are transmitted by ...

Yellow fever virus | Johns Hopkins ABX Guide

Comment: The increase in large urban outbreaks of yellow fever in SubSaharan Africa and South America in the 21st Century has led to the re ...

Molecular Epidemiology of Yellow Fever in Bolivia from 1999 to 2008

transmission of yellow fever virus in Peru. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003;9 ... The second coming of urban yellow fever in the Americas: looking the past to ...

A Malignant Tale (Yellow Fever, 1793 Epidemic)

Take part in the “Malignant Tale” at home or in the classroom and learn how Caspar Wistar Haines and his family experienced the yellow fever epidemic in ...

Yellow Fever - jstor

in many of the seaports of South and Central America and the West. Indies. As a result, no serious epidemics of urban yellow fever have occurred since 1928 ...

How Yellow Fever Intensified Racial Inequality in 19th-Century New ...

Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever ...

Yellow fever control: current epidemiology and vaccination strategies

Yellow fever (YF) outbreaks continue, have expanded into new areas and threaten large populations in South America and Africa.