Yellow Fever was originally released in 1976 on Decca's West African imprint, Afrodisia, and both its tracks were hugely controversial in Nigeria. The title track is one of Fela's greatest ...

Yellow fever is a hemorrhagic condition that can lead to a high fever, bleeding into the skin, and cell death in the liver and kidneys. If enough liver cells die, liver damage occurs, leading to ...

Building where the experiments were conducted, which proved that yellow fever is not transmitted by means of infected clothing (fomites) On October 23, 1900, U.S. Army Major Walter Reed presented the ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a young man named Isaac H. Charles arrived in yellow-fever-ravaged New Orleans in 1847, he did not, as one might expect, try to avoid the deadly disease, which killed as many as half of its ...

The yellow fever vaccine is a live vaccine, meaning it contains a weakened form of the virus. For most people, a single yellow fever vaccine can provide lifelong protection against the virus. Yellow ...

When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean in 1492, he brought Spanish visions of gold and glory, as well as new animals and pathogens. Pigs and rats ravaged the island ecosystems while ...

SÃO PAULO — “Good morning!” a loudspeaker blared recently in the working class São Paulo suburb called Jardim Monte Alegre. “We’ve got your yellow fever vaccine, and today we’re going house to house!

Yellow fever is a viral illness spread by mosquitoes in some parts of Africa and South America. You can take a single-dose ...