yellow fever

noun

, Pathology.

1. an acute, often fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by an RNA virus transmitted by a mosquito, especially Aedes aegypti, and characterized by liver damage and jaundice.

yellow fever

noun

1. an acute infectious disease of tropical and subtropical climates, characterized by fever, haemorrhages, vomiting of blood, and jaundice: caused by a virus transmitted by the bite of a female mosquito of the species Aedes aegypti Also calledyellow jackblack vomit

yellow fever

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1. A life-threatening infectious disease caused by a virus of the genus Flavivirus and characterized by fever, jaundice, and internal bleeding. Yellow fever occurs mainly in tropical regions of Africa and Latin America and is transmitted by mosquitoes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow fever¹

First recorded in 1730–40

Example Sentences

In 1793, there was a yellow fever outbreak and Philadelphians were dying in large numbers.

From Washington Post

After losing both parents to yellow fever in 1878, she started teaching at age 16 in a rural Mississippi school to provide for her five younger siblings.

From Washington Post

Some countries require evidence of a yellow fever shot before you can clear customs, and many schools will not let you enroll your children in school unless they’re up to date on mandatory immunizations.

From MIT Technology Review

There are many existing vaccines that use this strategy, including those for measles, yellow fever, and seasonal influenza.

From Popular-Science

One of Mount Vernon’s character interpreters, Matt Mattingly, who appears as George Washington’s secretary Tobias Lear, researched infectious diseases during colonial times, and found documents about a yellow fever outbreak.

From Washington Post

Yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia in first few weeks of October 1793.

From The Daily Beast

“Americans thought then we were at the cutting edge figuring out typhus and yellow fever,” says Bennett.

From The Daily Beast

Beyond medical board or nursing association certification, candidates must have a valid passport and yellow fever vaccination.

From The Daily Beast

At the time, New Orleans was a breeding ground for yellow fever and cholera.

From The Daily Beast

He was going to places where there was malaria, yellow fever; they would get elephantitis.

From The Daily Beast

On my mother's side—the Galloways—not a few lost their lives at Norfolk, from yellow fever, camp diseases and fatigue.

From Project Gutenberg

We do not know the cause of yellow fever despite the claims of Sanarelli that he has isolated the specific micro-organism.

From Project Gutenberg

Six years later he was sent with a squadron to South America, and there he took the yellow fever and died.

From Project Gutenberg

Poor Perry caught the yellow fever and died, and his ships came home without doing anything.

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He was state physician there, when Fernandina was stricken by the dread yellow fever, and the population was almost helpless.

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