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6 unusual facts about Yellow Fever!


7th Rhode Island Infantry

Yazoo Fever, dysentery, and typhoid reduced the regiment to mere company strength.

Anshei Sphard Beth El Emeth Congregation

Yellow fever epidemics in the 1870s affected the congregation's leadership; its rabbi, Ferdinand Sarner, died in 1878, and Jacob Peres died in 1879.

James Oliver Van de Velde

Yellow fever was epidemic in the city at that time and had killed forty of his parishioners.

St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia

The chiefs of eight American Indian tribes, who died from Yellow fever while visiting Philadelphia in 1793 to meet with President George Washington.

Walter Reed Medal

The Congressional Gold Medal was awarded by Congress on February 28, 1929 (Public Law 70-858, 45 Stat. 1409) to each of the persons listed below, "in special recognition of the high public service rendered and disabilities contracted in the interest of humanity and science as voluntary subjects for the experimentations during the yellow-fever investigations in Cuba"

Yellow Fever!

The three original members of the Yellow Magic Orchestra (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Yukihiro Takahashi) appear on this album as well as Towa Tei and Mouse on Mars.


Adamo Boari

After visiting the country especially the city of Buenos Aires and the city of Montevideo and after recovering from yellow fever he went to the United States where he lived in Chicago.

Adolfo Lutz

Lutz was the first Latin American scientist to study in depth and to confirm the mechanisms of transmission of yellow fever by the Aedes aegypti species of mosquitoes, its natural reservoir and vector, as they had been discovered a few years before, by American physician Walter Reed.

Adolph Walter Rich

He helped raise funds for the relief of the several yellow fever epidemics, the 1875 Oshkosh fire, the 1889 Johnstown flood, and the 1900 Galveston hurricane.

Asian fetish

In the afterword to the 1988 play M. Butterfly, the writer, David Henry Hwang, using the term "yellow fever," a pun on the disease of the same name, discusses white men with a "fetish" for Asian women.

Bushman repellent

Bushman Repellents are used as prevention from many insect-borne diseases including; Ross River virus, Dengue fever, West Nile virus, Malaria, Yellow fever, Japanese B encephalitis, Filariasis, Lyme disease, Leishmaniasis and Typhus fever.

George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle

After a difficult siege, wherein the troops suffered heavily from yellow fever, Havana Morro Castle was taken and Havana fell into British hands.

Gorgasella

The genus is possibly named after William Crawford Gorgas, who eliminated yellow fever in Panama, thus ensuring the construction of the Panama Canal.

Hosack's Folly

Based on the life of renowned New York physician Dr. David Hosack, the story takes place in 1820s Manhattan during an impending yellow fever epidemic.

James Lawrence Cabell

When yellow fever broke out in Memphis, Tennessee he was appointed chairman of the National Sanitary Conference and devised a plan that checked the spread of the epidemic.

Jesse William Lazear

After a few months in Quemados, Lazear, together with Walter Reed (1851–1902), James Carroll (1854–1907) and Aristides Agramonte (1869–1931), participated in a commission studying the transmission of yellow fever, the Yellow Fever Board.

Mary Odilia Berger

In 1878 a third of the members of the congregation were sent by Mother Odilia to Canton, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee during a Yellow Fever outbreak.

Operation Big Buzz

The operation was a field test designed to determine the feasibility of producing, storing, loading into munitions, and dispersing from aircraft the yellow fever mosquito (though these were not infected for the test) (Aedes aegypti).

Paul-Louis Simond

From 1901 to 1905 he participated on a mission to study yellow fever in Brazil where he and his colleagues confirmed the results that the U.S. Army Commission led by Walter Reed had just obtained in Cuba.

Río Negro Municipality

José Solano set up his exploration base in that place, in the margins of the Rio Negro, and there he settled with the few men that had survived the ascent along the Orinoco River, since most, including the famous Swedish botanist Pehr Löfling that accompanied the expedition, they had succumbed prey of the tropical diseases, especially the yellow fever.


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Benita Epstein

In addition to her studies of autism, lung surfactant, photosynthesis, purine metabolism and yellow-fever mosquitoes, she assisted her husband in ecological field research at islands around the world.

Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center

The Hospital of St. Vincent DePaul was incorporated in 1856 by eight Daughters of Charity during the yellow fever epidemic.

CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship

On March 3, 2013, La Fiebre Amarilla ("The Yellow Fever"; Namajague and Okumura) defeated Fuego and Stuka, Jr. to become the third modern age CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Champions, ending the previous champions' four and a half year reign.

Jamison Ernest

Best known for his ownership of the Yellow Fever fashion label he also owns Brooklyn Beat Records, run under Warner Music Group.

National Doctors' Day

A year later Finlay identified a mosquito of the genus Aedes as the organism transmitting yellow fever.

Operation Whitecoat

According to USAMRIID, the Whitecoat operation contributed to vaccines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for yellow fever and hepatitis, and investigational drugs for Q fever, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Rift Valley fever, and tularemia.

Saint-Domingue expedition

At Basse-Terre on Guadeloupe yellow fever had also broken out and on 3 September Richepanse died of it, to be replaced by Boudet.

Sarah Franklin Bache

Benjamin Franklin Bache (b. 1769, d. 1798 during the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1798.), a publisher, he was jailed and awaiting trial under the Sedition Act.

Theodore C. Lyster

After the death of Dr Gorgas, Lyster carried on his work with the Rockefeller Foundation (1920–24) of eliminating yellow fever from Mexico and Central America.

Transovarial transmission

This is the mechanism by which many Rickettsiae are maintained in their arthropod hosts through generations, which occurs also in aedes mosquito vector of the yellow fever virus and in phlebotomine sandflies that transmit pappataci fever.

Uganda Virus Research Institute

The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), located in Entebbe, Uganda, was established in 1936 as the Yellow Fever Research Institute by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Walter Reid

Walter Reed (1851–1902), United States Army Surgeon who made a break through in Yellow Fever research