A pioneering research collaboration into yellow fever virus (YFV) has shed new light on the exceptional recent outbreak in Brazil and how the virus spreads. The findings have implications for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Currently, yellow fever is endemic only in parts of South America and Africa. Outbreaks are still occurring in ...

In a recent study posted to the SSRN* preprint server, researchers presented a stochastic model of yellow fever transmission based on environmental covariates, which estimated the force of the ...

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 ...

The burden of yellow fever in any given area is known to be heavily dependent on climate, particularly rainfall and temperature which can impact both mosquito life cycle and viral replication. Now, ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an environmental issue often evolves into a human problem.

Top infectious disease experts are warning about a rapidly spreading outbreak of deadly yellow fever in Brazil that could hit parts of the United States. The danger would be most acute if the virus ...

Aedes aegypti are the same mosquito species that transmit Zika, dengue and chikungunya, viruses that are all related to yellow fever. U.S. health officials are concerned that the deadly yellow fever ...