A yellow flag on the horizon: The looming threat of yellow fever to North America

Yellow Fever in Central America

Studies on Yellow Fever in South America

1. Batches of Aëdes (Stegomyia) aegypti which had fed on monkeys in the early febrile stage of yellow fever and which has subsequently passed the usually accepted extrinsic incubation period for the virus, failed to transmit the disease to normal monkeys in approximately fifty per cent of the experiments. During the same time over eighty per cent of blood transfers were successful. 2. The monke...

Responding to the threat of urban yellow fever outbreaks.

When in April, 2016, WHO declared the yellow fever epidemic in Angola a global threat, it was because yellow fever appeared in Luanda, the capital city of Angola, causing a rapidly spreading urban outbreak due to the massive movement of people to and from the city and easy access to international airports, with daily connections to Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Nearly 45 years had elapsed sin...

Yellow fever and dengue: a threat to Europe?

The introduction and rapidly expanding range of Aedes albopictus in Europe is an iconic example of the growing risk of the globalization of vectors and vector-borne diseases. The history of yellow fever and dengue in temperate regions confirms that transmission of both diseases could recur, particularly if Ae. aegypti, a more effective vector, were to be re-introduced. The article is a broad ov...

Yellow fever in the north. The methods of early epidemiology

the field ofmedical education, beginning with its origins in the London hospitals and concluding with the ructions engendered by two reports on medical education, that of the Royal Commission chaired by Lord Todd (1968) and the internal one produced by Lord Flowers (1980). Harte is particularly illuminating on the changing relations between the medical schools and the University. Indeed, this i...