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4 days ago · The spark of the New York City yellow fever epidemic was the arrival of the disease in Philadelphia in the summer of 1793. After people fled yellow fever in the Caribbean, they brought it...
6 days ago · Based on work of Walter Reed, it is demonstrated that Yellow Fever is caused by a filterable virus transmitted by mosquitoes. The agent is similar to that reported in 1898 by Loffler and Frosch for foot and mouth disease of cattle. This is the first report of a viral agent known to cause human disease.
- Karen Yee
- 2018
4 days ago · About yellow fever. Yellow fever is a viral disease that is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected mosquitoes. In serious cases, the skin turns yellow (jaundice).
5 days ago · Background: Yellow fever (YF) is a zoonotic disease transmitted by mosquitoes among humans and nonhuman primates. Although urban YF is eradicated, the sylvatic YF has reemerged in some areas of Brazil in the twenty-first century. From 2016 to 2019, a sylvatic YF epidemic occurred in Southeast Brazil, where it had been eradicated in the 1940s.
5 days ago · A Delaware health officer chalked it up to measles’ reputation. The public “considered it a mild, childhood disease,” he wrote. They didn’t rush to vaccinate against measles because they ...
4 days ago · Mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti, a carrier of yellow fever and dengue, feed on vertebrate blood. Receptors on the mosquitoes' antennae enable detection of chemicals produced by vertebrates. Certain chemicals, such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid, act as attractants for several species of bloodsucking mosquitoes.
4 days ago · Yellow fever originated in Africa and the virus was brought to the Americas on cargo ships, which were harbouring the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the virus. The first recorded epidemic in Africa occurred in Ghana, in West Africa, in 1926. In the 1930s the disease re-emerged in Brazil.
