More Deadly Than War After the Spanish-American War of 1898, during which far more U.S. troops died from yellow fever than in battle, another board came to Cuba in 1900 to study the disease ...

In the 20th century, a vaccine for yellow fever was developed to protect people in regions where the disease still flourishes. Epidemics continued, however, during every decade of the century ...

“I write about yellow fever by day and worry about COVID-19 at night,” she said. Olivarius, an assistant professor of history, was working on her doctoral dissertation on slavery around the ...