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Yellow Yellow FeverFever

New come buckra,

He get sick,

He tak fever,He be die,

He be die, & etc.

In 1799, the traveler Robert Renny recalled being greeted on the shore of Jamaica by a canoe full of slave women sarcastically chanting.

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New York City in 1878

Victims of the fever awaiting burial at Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis in 1878

Plague-stricken—waiting for the frost in 1878

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The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic of

1793

CauCausese

Flavivirus genus

Aedes aegyptimosqui

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Monkey

Humans

Mosquito

SymSymptoptomsms

Fever Muscle

PainHeadache

ShiversBlack

Vomit

Regions Regions AffectedAffected

AfricaSouth America

TreatTreatmentment Dehydra

tion and fever

Oral rehydration salts and

paracetamol

Bacterial

infection

antibioti

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Serious ill patients

Intensive care

PrevPreventioentio

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nt Surveill

anceMosquit

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VaccinVaccinationation

A single dose of vaccine provides

protection for 10 years and probably for life.

ReferenceReferencess

The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins and Anne Coxe ToogoodViruses, plagues, and history by Michael B. A. OldstoneYellow Fever & public health in the new south by John H. EllisEpidemics and history: disease, power and imperialism by Sheldon Wattshttp://www.who.int/csr/disease/yellowfev/en/

A Special Gratitude to Dr. Scarcella Presented By: Kwang-Sug Lee