During the Civil War, the Union Army took a novel approach. Zika is not the first such disease to cause widespread fear. ... Welcome to the 19th century, when yellow fever, ...

Andrew M. Bell's new book, Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War, based on his 2006 doctoral dissertation, both removes the mystery and increases our ...

Though Northern cities such as New York and Boston freed themselves of the curse after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, yellow fever flourished in the South for decades after the Civil War.

"If you get yellow fever today your chances of survival are probably not much different than they were in the 1700s or the 1800. It's still going to be 1 out of every 5 or so who are going to die.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12.--The United States man-of-war Lackawanna arrived here today from Acapulco. She reported having had 12 cases of yellow fever on board during the passage, two of which ...

But instead of West Nile, the problem was yellow fever, and it caused panic and hundreds of deaths in the Port City. Although North Carolina succeeded from the Union a year earlier, most major early ...

A yellow fever epidemic in Angola could turn into a global crisis. ... But after Angola’s 27-year civil war ended in 2002, a development boom transformed Luanda and nearby areas.

The deadliest strain of yellow fever to ever hit the U.S., ... Keith describes how, despite lingering post-Civil War hostility, North gave to South without question.

These diseases were bubonic plague, smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, and ... At least nine more summers brought substantial yellow fever deaths to Houston before the end of the Civil War, ...

Yellow fever was a constant blight for eastern American cities — especially southeastern cities — in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most outbreaks occurred in the summer months, but some summers ...