An acute infectious disease primarily of the tropics, caused by a virus and transmitted to man by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes and Haemagogus. The severe form is characterized by fever, HEMOLYTIC JAUNDICE, and renal damage.
    

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A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.

Yellow fever in Buenos Aires, 1871. Oil painting by Juan Manuel Blanes.

A girl suffering from yellow fever. Watercolour.

Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 / par MM. Pariset et Mazet ... et rédigées par M. Pariset.

Medical Research Institute, Accra: disinfection with a spray from a tank. Photograph, 1928.

Untersuchungen über das Verhalten des Gelbfiebervirus in der Gewebekulter : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Kultivierbarkeit / von E. Haagen und M. Theiler.

Account of an epidemic fever, which occurred at Gibraltar, in the years 1804, 1810, and 1813 : taken from official documents, military and medical, and from the communications of Joseph D.A. Gilpin, M.D., deputy inspector of hospitals.

Beauperthuy et la découverte de la transmission de la fièvre jaune par les moustiques / par Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

Beauperthuy / Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

Nuevos estudios para determinar las causas, la naturaleza, y el tratamiento de la fiebre amarilla / por Juan Copello.

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Untersuchungen über das Verhalten des Gelbfiebervirus in der Gewebekulter : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Kultivierbarkeit / von E. Haagen und M. Theiler.

Account of an epidemic fever, which occurred at Gibraltar, in the years 1804, 1810, and 1813 : taken from official documents, military and medical, and from the communications of Joseph D.A. Gilpin, M.D., deputy inspector of hospitals.

Beauperthuy et la découverte de la transmission de la fièvre jaune par les moustiques / par Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

Beauperthuy / Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

Nuevos estudios para determinar las causas, la naturaleza, y el tratamiento de la fiebre amarilla / por Juan Copello.