Yellow Fever Etiology.

Etiology of Yellow Fever

By the inoculation of guinea pigs intraperitoneally with the emulsions of kidneys from wild rats and mice captured in Guayaquil, it was found that 67 per cent of the wild rats tested harbored in their kidneys a leptospira which produced in guinea pigs symptoms and lesions identical with those produced by Leptospira icterohamorrhagia derived either from patients suffering from infectious jaundic...

Yellow fever.

1MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. MSc in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP). PhD in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, FMUSP. Fellow American College of Physicians, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelit...

Yellow fever

Yellow fever.

With the infestation by Aedes aegypti, urban yellow fever might already exist. This did not occur because of either the lacking of a sufficient contact between the diseased individual and the A. aegypti or perhaps because this, after sixty years without transmitting the virus, needs an adaptation phase to infecting again.

Yellow Fever

What interest has India got in yellow fever ? The reply to this question is supplied by a paper by Dr. Patrick Manson " On the Panama Canal and the Introduction of Yellow Fever into Asia" read at a meeting of the Epidemiological Society of London held on the 25th of February. The epidemiology of yellow fever is very remarkable. It has a very limited area of habitual prevalence and likewise a li...