Yellow Fever in Europe
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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 features of the outbreaks (clinical symptoms, mortality, epidemiological aspects), allow us to eliminate the main other hypothesis: infectious jaundice. How could this tropical disease reach the coasts of Europe in a time where the ship trip required between 50 and 90 days? The settlement and persistence of this viral disease in Europe was link with the association of several ecological and entomological factors. If the persistence of eggs of Aedes in empty ships is well established, the possibility of virus transovarial transmission in the vector is more recently known. From the climatic, historic and demographic factors, we may propose explanations
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