The Brazilian Government has launched a vaccination campaign after the health ministry confirmed that a man in the capital Brasilia died from yellow fever. Brazil's Health Secretariat confirmed ...

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 ...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Tuesday issued an epidemiological alert regarding yellow fever in the Americas ...

but now we're also worried about yellow fever since it seems to be accelerating in tropical regions of Latin America such as Brazil and Venezuela," Dr. Peter Hotez, professor and dean of Baylor ...

More Deadly Than War After the Spanish-American War of 1898, during which far more U.S. troops died from yellow fever than in battle, another board came to Cuba in 1900 to study the disease ...

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 ...

“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 ...