There’s a new weapon against mosquitoes that spreads diseases such as dengue and yellow fever – more mosquitoes. Upscaling the success of emerging mosquito control technologies relies on automating ...

As global temperatures rise, mosquitoes are spreading faster and farther, fueling a dangerous increase in yellow fever and dengue cases that threatens public health worldwide.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Yellow Fever virus is among the most dangerous pathogens circulating today. As many as half of hospitalized patients succumb to disease complications. The disease typically impacts tropical climates, ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, New Orleanians could count on three things during the summer: a ferocious combination of heat and humidity, plenty of rain and an outbreak of yellow fever. Until Dr.

On August 31, 1900, a young soldier named William Dean proved that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever. He accomplished this by getting terribly sick after volunteering to hold out his arm and let four ...

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 ...

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