Interesting Facts
By: Rachel
- The last major outbreak in the US was in 1905
- This disease is sometimes called Yellow Jack or Black Vomit
- There is an episode called Yellow Fever on the hit TV show Supernatural
- Only female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have the yellow fever virus
- This disease is native to Africa, but it was introduced to South America through the slave trade in the 16th century
- Yellow fever causes an estimated 30,000 deaths every year
- 90% of infections occur in Africa
- About 200,000 people are infected with yellow fever every year
- In the past, yellow fever was viewed as a "biological weapon"
- The largest Yellow Fever outbreak was in 1793