Today we’re talking about yellow fever, a disease with a history as colorful as its name, and a vector as pretty as a picture (depending on whom you ask, I suppose). From an epidemic that decimated Memphis, Tennessee in the late 1800s, to the development of the vaccine, to where the offending mosquito hangs out today, we’ll cover everything you need to know about this disease. Like for example did you know that A. Ham The Man himself was infected?! Yeah, me neither. Let’s learn things together.
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| Crosby, Molly Caldwell. The American plague: The untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history. Penguin, 2007. | Monath, Thomas P., and Pedro FC Vasconcelos. “Yellow fever.” Journal of Clinical Virology 64 (2015): 160-173. |
| Oldstone, Michael BA. Viruses, Plagues, and history: past, present and future. Oxford University Press, 2009. | Gotuzzo, Eduardo, Sergio Yactayo, and Erika Córdova. “Efficacy and duration of immunity after yellow fever vaccination: systematic review on the need for a booster every 10 years.” The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 89.3 (2013): 434-444. |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever 1793. Simon and Schuster, 2011. |
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