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 ...
Yellow fever is a viral illness spread by mosquitoes in some parts of Africa and South America. You can take a single-dose ...
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 ...