The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) Monday issued a new epidemiological alert in response to an increase in yellow ...

In the past year alone, 61 new cases were recorded, 30 of them fatal. International health organization sends out alert after ...

In the 20th century, a vaccine for yellow fever was developed to protect people in regions where the disease still flourishes. Epidemics continued, however, during every decade of the century, and ...

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 ...

Yellow fever is caused by a small virus that is spread by the bite of mosquitoes and is common in South America. Anyone can get yellow fever, but the elderly have a higher risk of severe infection.

Asked how she was fairing during the shelter in place, Stanford University historian Kathryn Olivarius reflected on being a researcher studying early American epidemics during the COVID-19 crisis.

Dengue fever cases have been rising among U.S. travelers and are expected to climb this year, according to a warning from the ...

In response to the yellow fever outbreak currently on-going in Brazil some 3.5 million doses of vaccine from the emergency stockpile were deployed to the country through the International ...