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Yellow fever in South Wales, 1865.
The only known occasion on which yellow fever was transmitted within the British Isles was during an epidemic in Swansea in September/October 1865. The only other similar epidemic in Northern Europe was in St Nazaire in 1861.1 These appear to have been rare instances of mosquito-borne epidemics in which all the mosquitoes carrying the virus, and involved in transmission, were released from a si...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300045737