"Venerate the Lancet": Benjamin Rush's yellow fever therapy in context.

A melancholy scene of devastation: the public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic

During the past two decades the fear of infectious epidemic diseases has resurfaced. The appearance of AIDS as well as familiar bacterial infections that have become resistant to antibiotic therapy has undermined the postWorld War II optimism that epidemic infectious diseases were under control and no longer posed a threat to humanity. Moreover, growing recognition that potentially deadly virus...

Q fever in Great Britain. Epidemiology of an outbreak.

Shortage of vaccines during a yellow fever outbreak in Guinea.

A yellow fever epidemic erupted in Guinea in September, 2000. From Sept 4, 2000, to Jan 7, 2001, 688 instances of the disease and 225 deaths were reported. The diagnosis was laboratory confirmed by IgM detection in more than 40 patients. A mass vaccination campaign was limited by insufficient international stocks. After the epidemic in Guinea, the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Pro...

Is Sri Lanka prepared for yellow fever outbreaks? A case study.

www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 4 December 2016 e909 These defi ciencies might be common to most countries in Asia, making them vulnerable to the ongoing yellow fever epidemic. The data show that tourists entering Sri Lanka from selected west African and South American countries, especially via irregular routes, pose the highest risk of infection. However, the cases of yellow fever in China were...

Yellow fever: an update.

Yellow fever, the original viral haemorrhagic fever, was one of the most feared lethal diseases before the development of an effective vaccine. Today the disease still affects as many as 200,000 persons annually in tropical regions of Africa and South America, and poses a significant hazard to unvaccinated travellers to these areas. Yellow fever is transmitted in a cycle involving monkeys and m...