SANARELLI'S WORK UPON YELLOW FEVER

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...

Yellow Fever in Europe

Known today as an exclusively tropical disease, yellow fever appeared in Europe in several outbreaks during the first half of the nineteenth century. Between 1800 and 1828, several ports in the south of Spain were affected. Each time, several thousands of deaths were registered. We always possess several historical detailed reports containing a lot of clinical and epidemiological data. The feat...