Yellow fever appeared in the U.S. in the late 17th century. The deadly virus continued to strike cities, mostly eastern seaports and Gulf Coast cities, for the next two hundred years, killing ...

Live-attenuated yellow fever vaccine (YF17D) was developed in the 1930s as the first ever empirically derived human vaccine. Ninety years later, it is still a benchmark for vaccines made today. YF17D ...

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, and ...

We recently identified the molecular underpinnings of symptomatic infection, using the live attenuated yellow fever virus vaccine (YF17D) as a model. Using whole blood transcriptomic and metabolomic ...

Seroprotection was observed in 39 of 40 (98%; 95% CI, 89% to 100%) participants who received the intradermal fractional dose of 17D ... virus. Last week, ProMed Mail, an infectious disease message ...

Yellow fever virus is found in tropical and subtropical areas in South America and Africa. The virus is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito. Yellow fever is a very rare cause of ...