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 ...

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 ...

They couldn’t. It was 1795, and the yellow fever—which had burned through Philadelphia two years earlier, killing more than 10 percent of the city’s population—had arrived in New York.

“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 ...

“The yellow fever virus remains in a sylvatic cycle between specific species of mosquitoes and non-human primates in 13 countries and territories of the region. Since 1960, it has caused 9,591 ...