If you plan on traveling abroad this summer, especially to regions within South America or Africa, it’s imperative to be aware of your risk of yellow fever, a potentially deadly flavivirus endemic to ...

Yellow fever, caused and spread by the yellow fever mosquito, hasn't been a major public health concern since the 1800s, but its reemergence in the past five decades may be cause for concern, ...

Infectious disease experts in the United States suspect the ongoing yellow fever outbreak in Brazil could carve an epidemic path similar to Zika virus, according to The Washington Post. Since December ...

Experts are warning that yellow fever — which hasn’t had a major outbreak in the U.S. since 1905 — could make a comeback. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Getty Image) When you think of yellow ...

In the summer of 1693, a strange disease spread through Boston. Victims suffered from jaundice, high fever and black vomit. For more than two hundred years, yellow fever — as the disease became known ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The World Health Organization and its partners shipped more than 6 million yellow fever vaccines to Angola in February to quash an emerging epidemic, yet when they asked country ...

Exposure of one person can lead to infection of all household members. [File, Standard] On March 5, 2022, Kenya declared an outbreak of yellow fever in Isiolo County after the death of three people.

LUANDA (Reuters) - Fifty-one people have now died in a yellow fever outbreak in Angola, less than two months after it started spreading in the capital, the national director of health said. Health ...

As of February 2025, the Pan American Health Organization has issued an epidemiological alert regarding the recent increases in yellow fever rates in the Americas. While yellow fever has been rising ...