REMARKS ON YELLOW FEVER.

Remarks on Fever in India

By Surgeon-Major James Macartney, m.d., a.m.d. The development of our knowledge of the precise character of fevers as they occur in India, must strike everybody as strangely slow and unsatisfactory. It is not, however, by making a study of English and Continental authors that we are likely to arrive at definite conclusions ; hence the value of original observation and the frank expression of ou...

Yellow fever.

1MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. MSc in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP). PhD in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, FMUSP. Fellow American College of Physicians, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelit...

Yellow fever

Yellow fever.

With the infestation by Aedes aegypti, urban yellow fever might already exist. This did not occur because of either the lacking of a sufficient contact between the diseased individual and the A. aegypti or perhaps because this, after sixty years without transmitting the virus, needs an adaptation phase to infecting again.

Yellow Fever

What interest has India got in yellow fever ? The reply to this question is supplied by a paper by Dr. Patrick Manson " On the Panama Canal and the Introduction of Yellow Fever into Asia" read at a meeting of the Epidemiological Society of London held on the 25th of February. The epidemiology of yellow fever is very remarkable. It has a very limited area of habitual prevalence and likewise a li...