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 ...

Many of its symptoms, including fever, delirium and nausea, were vague and ... A persistent myth claimed that since yellow fever was known in Africa, black people had a natural resistance to ...

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 ...