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.

Yellow fever was a constant blight for eastern American cities — especially ... But increased mobility in the period after the Civil War enabled the disease — through infected ...

Yellow fever killed more than 150,000 people in New Orleans between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War, according to Olivarius. “Once you see it, every single source is covered ...

Important public health lessons from the Civil War became mainstream 20th ... They set to work creating the nation’s first modern boards of health to combat diseases like cholera and yellow fever.

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.

"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.