Yellow Plague

yellow fever

An infectious tropical disease caused by an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes, especially A. aegypti, and Haemagogus and characterized by high fever, jaundice, and often gastrointestinal hemorrhaging. Also called yellow jack.

yellow fever

(Medicine / Pathology) 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 called yellow jack black vomit

yellow fever (y

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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.

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Noun

yellow fever - caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito

black vomit, yellow jack

infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact

Translations

yellow fever n → febbre f gialla

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aedes
Aedes aegypti
Aedes albopictus
Almirante Brown
arbovirus
Asian tiger mosquito
black vomit
Contagionist
Finlay
flavivirus
genus Aedes
Gorgas
Gorgas William Crawford
hemorrhagic fever
Hideyo Noguchi
Mosquito
Noguchi
Reed Walter
Theiler

[11] Kiple is convinced that: But, in fact, the black did possess innate yellow fever immunities, immunities that medical science has yet to acknowledge let alone explain, but immunities that nevertheless are discernible within the history of black, white and red men and the yellow plague.

YELLOW FEVER IMMUNITIES IN WEST AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS IN THE AGE OF ... by Watts, Sheldon / Journal of Social History

Yellow Pages Integrated Media Association
Yellow Pages Japan
Yellow Pages Market Reporter
Yellow Pages Mauritius, Inc.
Yellow Pages Media
Yellow Pages Publishers Association
Yellow Pages Research
Yellow Pages Research Institute
Yellow Pages Super Grabber
Yellow Pages Superhighway
yellow paper daisy
yellow parilla
yellow pea
yellow perch
yellow peril
Yellow pheasant's eye
Yellow Phone System
yellow phosphorus
yellow phosphorus
yellow phosphorus
Yellow pike
Yellow pike
Yellow pike
yellow pill
yellow pimpernel
yellow pine
yellow pine
yellow pine tree
yellow pitcher plant

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Yellow plover
yellow plum
yellow pond lily
yellow pop flower
yellow poplar
yellow poplar
yellow poplar
yellow poplars
yellow poplars
yellow poplars
Yellow poppy
Yellow popular
Yellow popular
Yellow precipitate
Yellow precipitate
Yellow press
Yellow press
Yellow Productions Secret Agency
Yellow Professionalism
yellow prussiate of potash
yellow prussiate of potash
Yellow prussiate of soda
Yellow prussiate of soda
Yellow puccoon
Yellow puccoon
Yellow puccoon
yellow pyoktanin
yellow pyrite
Yellow pyrites
yellow quartz

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