The Treatment of Yellow Fever

Use of Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Experimental Yellow Fever

Sir,?Almost 40 years ago Calmette (1908) noted that lesions resulting from the injection of viper venom ' Strangely resembled those _ observed in the case of individuals who have died from yellow fever'. Calmette further remarks that this observation was made by several scientists, notably Sanarelli. and that it had probably led Dyer and Bettincour 'to treat?? without much success?yellow fever ...

The Yellow Fever Initiative

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.