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  1. Apr 23, 2024 · An LSU Shreveport professor, students, and a field technician have uncovered the original burial sites of two famous priests in Shreveport, according to an LSUS announcement Monday. Catholic priests Father Isidore Quemerais and Father Louis Gergaud were two of the heroes of the 1873 yellow fever epidemic that wiped out a quarter of Shreveport ...

  2. 6 days ago · Yellow fever virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus, similar to dengue, West Nile, and St. Louis encephalitis viruses. The virus is maintained in a cycle between mosquitoes and vertebrate hosts, primarily non-human primates. Humans with yellow fever are infectious to mosquitoes shortly before the onset of fever and up to 5 days after onset.

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  4. 6 days ago · Key points. Initial symptoms of yellow fever can include fever, chills, severe headache, back pain, general body aches, nausea, vomiting, fatigue (feeling tired), and weakness. Severe symptoms include high fever, yellow skin or eyes (jaundice), bleeding, shock, and organ failure. If you think you or a family member might have yellow fever, talk ...

  5. 6 days ago · Key points. Yellow fever is caused by a virus primarily spread to people through the bite of infected mosquitoes. Yellow fever virus is maintained in the environment between mosquitoes and non-human primates, like monkeys. If infected, people can spread the virus to mosquitoes and rarely to other people though exposure to infected blood.

  6. 4 days 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 ...

  7. 5 days ago · Tomlinson, W. K. & Perret, J.J. “Jean-Charles Faget and the yellow fever controversy in New Orleans,” Proceedings of the International Congress for the History of Medicine (25th, Quebec, 1976), pages 1361-1373.

  8. Apr 26, 2024 · Al Mighayyer added that Israeli forces buried several bodies in plastic bags “at a depth of three meters, which made them decompose quickly.” “The occupation deliberately concealed evidence ...