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The first outbreaks of disease that were probably yellow fever occurred in the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, on Barbados in 1647 and Guadeloupe in 1648. [6] Barbados had undergone an ecological transformation with the introduction of sugar cultivation by the Dutch.
May 17, 2021 · Yellow fever is caused by a virus in the family Flaviviridae, and it is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The yellow fever virus most likely originated in Africa and arrived in the Western Hemisphere in the 1600s as a result of slave trade.
Aug 28, 2016 · An outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo has raised concerns about the infamous and fearsome disease — once a scourge of the U.S., Panama and Spain.
3 days ago · Yellow fever, acute infectious disease characterized by fever, headache, backache, nausea, and vomiting. The skin and eyes may appear yellow, a condition known as jaundice, giving rise to the disease’s popular name.
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Feb 27, 2022 · Yellow fever (YF) is a mosquito-borne viral illness caused by an arbovirus of the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, encompassing positive-single-stranded RNA viruses. The virus was isolated for the first time in 1927 in a male patient [ 1 ]. Transmission is primarily by mosquitoes [ 2 ].
- 10.3390/vaccines10030372
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- Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Mar; 10(3): 372.
In the summer of 1693, a strange disease spread through Boston. Victims suffered from jaundice, high fever and black vomit. For more than two hundred years, yellow fever — as the disease became...
WHO fact sheet about yellow fever, an acute viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes. It provides key facts and information on signs and symptoms, populations at risk, transmission, treatment, prevention, WHO response.
