After he became surgeon general of the Army in 1914, Gorgas met with Dr. Wickliffe Rose of the Rockefeller Foundation, which subsequently focused on eradicating yellow fever from the world.

Victims suffered from jaundice, high fever and black vomit. For more than two hundred years, yellow fever — as the disease became known — attacked numerous American cities, usually in severe ...

Yellow fever is a viral disease that is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Although it is a rare disease, many countries require that visitors have the yellow fever vaccination prior to ...

New information from the World Health Organization (WHO) confirms that Brazil's ongoing yellow fever outbreak is centered in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Minas Gerais states, with many infections ...

Yellow fever is a viral disease caused by the bite of a mosquito. Many countries still require visitors to be vaccinated for it before entering. Yellow fever is found mainly in certain areas of Africa ...