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 ...

Malaria and leprosy cases in Florida have people more aware of diseases that have flown under the public’s radar for years. Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness related to the viruses that cause ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts are warning that yellow fever — which hasn’t had a major outbreak in the U.S. since 1905 — could make a comeback. (Photo ...

In a recent study posted to the SSRN* preprint server, researchers presented a stochastic model of yellow fever transmission based on environmental covariates, which estimated the force of the ...

Christopher Columbus and his troops fight the battle of Vega Real in Hispaniola. Many combatants contract a disease that remains unknown. The first presumed case of yellow fever is recorded in the ...