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Yellow Fever Commission
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Yellow Fever Commission U.S. Army commission, ca. 1899–1902, formed to investigate the causes of yellow fever among Army personnel in Havana, Cuba. Under the direction of Maj.
Walter Reed the commission identified the
Aëdes aegypti mosquito as the vector of the disease, thereby making possible the eradication of the disease in Cuba by controlling its vector.
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Yellow Fever Acquired in Amazonas, Brazil.
Newspaper article from: Travel Medicine Advisor; 6/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...His IgM and IgG titers for yellow fever were negative. However, serum...tested positive for yellow fever by polymerase chain reaction...pretravel evaluation, yellow fever vaccine, or malaria prophylaxis...no one else became ill with fevers. Eight (53%) of the travelers...
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Yellow Fever Acquired in Amazonas, Brazil.(Report)
Magazine article from: Infectious Disease Alert; 7/1/2002; 700+ words
; Yellow Fever Acquired in Amazonas...IgM and IgG titers for yellow fever were negative. However, serum...tested positive for yellow fever by polymerase chain reaction...pretravel evaluation, yellow fever vaccine, or malaria prophylaxis...no one else became ill with ...
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Yellow fever control in Cameroon: Where are we now and where are we going?(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Medicine; 2/8/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Peter M Ndumbe [4] Background Yellow fever, which has caused devastating...activities involve the prevention of yellow fever outbreaks (through routine vaccination...of the plan. In 2004, routine yellow fever vaccination with one dose of the...
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Yellow Fever Vaccine.
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...facilities for distribution of yellow fever vaccines in the United States and...During the 1990s, isolation of yellow fever virus was reported in persons with...not meet the case definition of yellow fever (8). Air travel by such persons...
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Yellow fever: A deadly disease poised to kill again.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Clinical Investigation; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Yellow fever A deadly disease poised to kill again...milestone in the history and control of yellow fever. Chapter six describes research on weapons...portion of the chapter is devoted to yellow fever, and I believe that Dickerson's arguments...
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Yellow Fever Vaccination.(Report)
Magazine article from: Infectious Disease Alert; 12/1/2002; 700+ words
; Yellow Fever Vaccination Special Report The current...America and Africa that lie within the yellow-fever endemic zone should be vaccinated regardless...destination-specific risk for exposure to yellow fever. However, yellow fever vaccination...
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Fatal Yellow Fever in a U.S. Traveler to Venezuela.
Magazine article from: Infectious Disease Alert; 5/1/2000; 700+ words
; Fatal Yellow Fever in a U.S. Traveler to Venezuela Abstract...occurs in the face of a resurgence of yellow fever over the last two decades..sup.2 Yellow fever is currently endemic in sub-Saharan...
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Jungle Yellow Fever, Rio de Janeiro.(Brazil)(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 5/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; To the Editor: Yellow fever control in Brazil through vaccination...sample was collected January 11 for yellow fever diagnosis. Reverse transcription...who became ill in the travel group, yellow fever IgM serologic testing was performed...
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Pathogens & People: Yellow fever: Long forgotten, but not gone
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 6/3/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...years after solving the riddle of yellow fever in Cuba. As with Teddy Roosevelt...experiments that convincingly showed yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes...breeding grounds quickly ended yellow fever outbreaks in Cuba and then in the...
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The Fight Against Yellow Fever: A Global Mobilisation for Sub-Saharan Africa.
PR Newswire Europe; 12/12/2006; 700+ words
; ...Mali, to Organise Fight Against Yellow Fever in Central and Western Africa Faced...aventis and sanofi pasteur in this Yellow Fever Programme shows that the Group...major efforts underway to increase yellow fever vaccination and introduce it into...
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Yellow Fever
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
Yellow Fever Yellow fever is an infectious disease...disease Viral hemorrhagic fevers Yellow fever is a disease...months. Early stages of yellow fever can be easily confused...muh-RAH-jik) fevers and types of viral...has produced yellow fever to ...
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yellow fever
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
yellow fever acute infectious disease endemic in tropical...States occurred in New Orleans in 1905. Yellow fever is caused by a virus transmitted by...habitations. A form of the disease called sylvan yellow fever is transmitted in tropical jungles...
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Yellow Fever and Malaria
Book article from: American Eras
Yellow Fever and Malaria Dreaded Diseases . Yellow fever and malaria, two of the most feared diseases of the...there was a connection with swamp air or with summer heat. Yellow fever attacks the liver, producing the jaundice that makes...
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Yellow Fever Commission
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Yellow Fever Commission U.S. Army commission, ca. 1899–1902, formed to investigate the causes of yellow fever among Army personnel in Havana, Cuba. Under the direction of Maj. Walter...
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fever
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...direction constitutes fever. Fever, or pyrexia , refers...the word ‘fever’ is incorporated...scarlet, typhoid, and yellow fevers, indicating that a rise...those with infectious fevers were taken in to isolation...hospitals, often called fever hospitals. The ...
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