The Vervain and Yellow Fever

The Yellow Fever Initiative

Yellow fever and the South

MARGARET HUMPHREYS, Yellow fever and the South, Health and Medicine in American Society series, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1992, pp. x, 226, $45.00 (0-81351820-2). Histories of public health tend to avoid detailed analysis of the origins and context of public health reform, and histories of specific diseases often fail to see their subject in a wider economic and political set...

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.