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3 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...
2 days ago · Uganda’s vaccination initiative is part of a global strategy launched in 2017 by the WHO and partners such as the U.N. children’s agency to eliminate yellow fever by 2026. The goal is to protect almost one billion people in Africa and the Americas. A midterm evaluation of that strategy, whose results were published last year, found that 185 ...
2 days ago · The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and ...
3 days ago · AP Photo. A man receives a shot of yellow fever vaccine at Kiswa Health Center III in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, April. 2, 2024. Uganda has rolled out a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign ...
3 days ago · KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has rolled out a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign to help safeguard its population against the mosquito-borne disease that has long posed a threat.
4 days ago · Copyright © africanews. cleared. By Rédaction Africanews. Last updated: 16 hours ago. Uganda launched a mass vaccination campaign in April against the mosquito-borne disease, yellow fever. They...
3 days ago · Before this, Ugandans usually paid to get the yellow fever shot at private clinics, for the equivalent of $27. Uganda, with 45 million people, is one of 27 countries on the African continent ...
