In the 20th century, a vaccine for yellow fever was developed to protect people in regions where the disease still flourishes. Epidemics continued, however, during every decade of the century ...

After 1743, the disease will not return to the region until 1762. Yellow fever kills an estimated 5,000 people in Philadelphia. Thousands more city residents will die in subsequent outbreaks over ...

Yellow fever killed more than 150,000 people in New Orleans between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War, according to Olivarius. “Once you see it, every single source is covered ...

Paraguayan health authorities reported an increase in the demand for the yellow fever vaccine from people willing to travel to Brazil for the summer season. “An average of 200 people come daily ...

For about half of the people who progress to this second phase, the disease will lead to death. The virus, classified as a flavivirus, is generally transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the reason ...

The private hospital has hundreds of unspent doses of the yellow fever vaccine, according to James Odite, a nurse working at ...

The yellow fever mosquito, an invasive species that bites ... The mosquito can transmit several dangerous diseases to people ...

“Any foreign person, not resident in Paraguay, coming from a risk area, must present the international certificate of vaccination against yellow fever to enter Paraguay,” the authorities ...

Kenya is an endemic zone for yellow fever as well as Saudi Arabia. Once the disease sets in it is over 50 per cent fatal. It said the disease infects about 500,000 people in Africa and kills ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A man receives a shot of yellow fever vaccine at Kiswa Health Center III in Kampala ...