As human development increasingly encroaches on the Amazon, researchers find that the growing boundary between forests and ...

Yellow fever is a viral disease that is spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes. The symptoms range from ...

The yellow fever vaccine is a live vaccine, meaning it contains a weakened form of the virus. For most people, a single yellow fever vaccine can provide lifelong protection against the virus. Yellow ...

Yellow fever is a dangerous mosquito-borne virus that, for hundreds of years, has caused sporadic, deadly outbreaks in the tropics of South America, Central America, and Africa. According to a new ...

Yellow fever was the first human disease to have a licensed vaccine and has long been considered important to an understanding of how epidemics happen and should be combated. It was introduced to 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 ...

CONCORD, Calif. (KGO) -- An invasive, non-native mosquito known to carry diseases and not seen in Contra Costa County in two years has been found in North Concord. Inspectors from the Contra Costa ...

"The investigational vYF vaccine is a next-generation, live-attenuated yellow fever vaccine grown in serum-free Vero cells ...

The spread of mosquito-transmitted viruses is accelerating in the Southern U.S., stirring concerns about the potential return of yellow fever, two infectious disease experts wrote in an Oct. 14 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just issued a travel advisory for Venezuela after the country witnessed a rise in yellow fever cases in recent weeks. CDC said that some of ...

Researchers have discovered how certain flavonoids -- a type of metabolic product from plants and other organisms -- can kill yellow fever mosquito larvae. These compounds inhibit an enzyme, called ...