"Sometimes people ask me, 'Hey, Doc, what scares you more than anything else?' And often they’re surprised when I say yellow ...

Yellow fever is a virus spread through specific types of mosquitoes found in Africa and South America. If bitten by an ...

Yellow fever joins other diseases — malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis — that were once confined to the tropics, but have now spread northwards into the US due to a warming climate.

The "yellow fever" mosquito is an adaptive species. They typically only bite humans and have adapted to bite during the afternoon, not the dawn or dusk hours, when more people are outside.

The yellow fever vaccine could help protect you from the yellow fever virus in high risk countries. Learn more about where it's given, how long it lasts, and the possible side effects.

Plagues have long been seen as a source of divine retribution. In her new history of yellow fever, Molly Caldwell Crosby argues the disease can be seen as a punishment for the evil of slavery.

A new book, “The Fever: The Most Fatal Plague in American History,” by Virginia author Lon Wagner, chronicles a 1855 yellow fever epidemic that ravaged Norfolk and Portsmouth. He’… ...

A man is vaccinated during a campaign of vaccination against yellow fever at the transport terminal, after the Colombian government declared a health emergency due to the increase in infections ...

A man is vaccinated during a campaign of vaccination against yellow fever at the transport terminal, after the Colombian government declared a health emergency due to the increase in infections ...