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1 day ago · Around 730 people died of yellow fever that first summer. This disease, which causes symptoms of fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting and fatigue, would plague New York City for almost a ...
5 days ago · Yellow fever virus (YFV) is the prototype member of the genus Flavivirus and family Flaviviridae. It is an arbovirus transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes in Africa and Americas, causing a disease with a large spectrum of symptoms, from mild disease to severe and deadly haemorrhagic fever in humans and New World non-human primates (NHP) (Vasconcelos & Monath 2016).
5 days ago · 1. Yellow Fever. The quarantine station on Staten Island. Image from New York Public Library. In August 1793, a yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia, killing around 5,000 residents out of 50,000 ...
3 days ago · Yellow Fever virus - The YFV sample used was the 74018 isolate belonging to South American genotype I, isolated from Brazil, corresponding to the distinct lineage 1D 74018/FIOCRUZ/MG/01 (YFV-74018-1D) from a human fatal case in 2001. The isolate was passaged four times in C6/36 cell culture and grown in T25 flasks in Leibovitz medium (L-15 ...
1 day ago · Memphis, Tennessee. / 35.11750°N 89.97111°W / 35.11750; -89.97111. Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, [7] Memphis is the second-most populous city ...
1 day ago · It was the first bilateral treaty concluded by the United States with another American country. It was ratified by both countries and began enforcement in May 1825. The commercial provisions of the treaty granted reciprocal most-favored-nation status and were maintained despite the dissolution of Gran Colombia in 1830.
1 day ago · The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300,000–250,000 years ago — anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. [1]
