“An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793” dramatically recounts ... the narrative delivers a social and medical history of the times and raises chilling ...

“I write about yellow fever by day and worry about COVID-19 at night,” she said. Olivarius, an assistant professor of history, was working on her doctoral dissertation on slavery around the ...

Victims suffered from jaundice, high fever and black vomit. For more than two hundred years, yellow fever — as the disease became known — attacked numerous American cities, usually in severe ...

In the book, Byerly, who specialises in the history of military medicine, talks about mosquito-borne diseases, such as yellow fever, and public health issues, such as sanitation. “At the time of his ...

But Black people knew well that yellow fever affected them as much as anybody else ... Olivarius tells us that history seems to have repeated itself, although with some differences. Blacks and other ...

of the vaccine was administered subcutaneously to each. None of the volunteer subjects had a prior history of yellow-fever vaccination, encephalitis or travel outside the United States.

“I write about yellow fever by day and worry about COVID-19 at night,” she said. Olivarius, an assistant professor of history, was working on her doctoral dissertation on slavery around the time of ...

Yellow fever disease is diagnosed based on symptoms, physical findings, laboratory testing, and travel history, including the possibility of exposure to infected mosquitoes. There is no specific ...

“I write about yellow fever by day and worry about COVID-19 at night,” she said. Olivarius, an assistant professor of history, was working on her doctoral dissertation on slavery around the time of ...