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3 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...
4 days ago · Yellow Fever Vaccine Booster Doses: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, 2015. MMWR, June 19, 2015; 64 (23);647-650. Read at CDC.gov. View PDF. Yellow Fever Vaccine: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) MMWR, July 30, 2010; 59 (RR07):1-27. Read at CDC.gov.
4 days ago · 25,000,000 – 50,000,000 (estimated) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by ...
4 days ago · For ED patients with signs and symptoms of infectious disease - including fever, rash, joint pain, and headache - obtaining a travel history is essential in order to quickly identify emerging (or re-emerging) infections. This issue reviews diagnostic and management best practices for three infections: Middle East respiratory syndrome, chikungunya virus infection, and Zika virus infection. Free ...
5 days ago · Fever is a frequent symptom of autoimmune diseases and one can reasonable speculate that fever could enhance the immune response in a way that furthers the damage to host cells, tissues or organs. In patients with such illnesses, there may be real benefit to be derived from suppressing the febrile response that could amplify adverse processes ...
2 days ago · Diagnosis and management of tickborne rickettsial diseases: Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other spotted fever group rickettsioses, ehrlichioses, and anaplasmosis - United States: a practical guide for health care and public health professionals.
17 hours ago · Yellow fever had quickly spread among the American occupation force, crippling it. A group of concerned officers of the American army chose Theodore Roosevelt to draft a request to Washington that it withdraw the Army, a request that paralleled a similar one from General Shafter, who described his force as an "army of convalescents".
