There is no proof that yellow fever occured in French Guiana before 1763. The first repcrt of “vomito negro” appears during the Kourou expedition in 1763. From 1763 to 1888, yellow fever was reported repeatedly. Epidemics were observed in 1765, 1793-1796, 1802, 1850, 1855 (with 27.2% mortality), 18731874, 1876, 1877, 1885. In 1902 an epidemic started in St-Jean-du-Maroni and reached Cayenne in ...

INTRODUCTION Yellow fever is considered a re-emerging disease and is endemic in tropical regions of Africa and South America. At present, there are no standardized or commercialized kits available for yellow fever virus detection. Therefore, diagnosis must be made by time-consuming routine techniques, and sometimes, the virus or its proteins are not detected. Furthermore, co-circulation with ot...

Yellow fever (YF) is an acute viral infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes which occurs in two distinct epidemiological cycles: sylvatic and urban. In the sylvatic cycle, the virus is maintained by monkey's infection and transovarian transmission in vectors. Surveillance of non-human primates is required for the detection of viral circulation during epizootics, and for the identification ...

CHRISTOPHER HOOLIHAN (comp.), An annotated catalog of the Miner Yellow Fever Collection, Rochester NY, Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1990, 8vo, pp. 95, illus., $35.00 (US & Canada), $40.00 (elsewhere), paperback. To anyone with an interest in yellow fever this catalogue is fascinating. However, it is one man's collection and has some gaps in ...