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Modified link of Web site: Patient - Yellow Fever and Yellow Fever Vaccination. Oct 29, 2026
Add new Web site: Scholarship at Georgetown Law - A Yellow Fever Epidemic: A New Global Health Emergency? (PDF). Mar 07, 2026
Add new Web site: Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yellow Fever and the Emotional Consequences of Untreatable Epidemic Disease (PDF). Dec 12, 2025
Add new Web site: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines - Yellow fever control: current epidemiology and vaccination strategies. Oct 31, 2025
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Yellow fever (PDF). Aug 08, 2025
Add new Web site: Cedars-Sinai - Yellow Fever. Feb 01, 2025
Add new Web site: Healthdirect - Yellow fever. Dec 20, 2024
Media added. Aug 16, 2024
Add new Web site: World Health Organization - Yellow fever. Jun 27, 2024
Link added. May 06, 2024
Add new Web site: DermNet - Yellow fever. Apr 10, 2024
Add new Web site: Pan American Health Organization - Yellow Fever. Jan 15, 2024
Add new Web site: MSD Manual - Professional Version - Yellow Fever. Dec 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Johns Hopkins Medicine - Yellow Fever. May 12, 2023
Add new Web site: MedicineNet - Yellow Fever. Mar 14, 2023
Add new Web site: Verywell Health - Causes of Jaundice Yellow Skin. Feb 03, 2023
Add new Web site: Cleveland Clinic - Yellow Fever. Dec 23, 2022
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Yellow Fever: Origin, Epidemiology, Preventive Strategies and Future Prospects. Sep 23, 2022
Add new Web site: WebMD - Yellow Fever. Jan 11, 2021
Corrected display issue. Oct 24, 2019
Add new Web site: PBS - The American Experience - The Great Fever. Nov 18, 2016
Add new Web site: PBS - The American Experience - The Great Fever. Nov 18, 2016
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - What is Yellow Fever? May 25, 2014
Add new Web site: The Merck Manuals - Consumer Version - Yellow Fever. May 22, 2014
Added a photo of an Aedes aegypti mosquito and an image of William Crawford Gorgas. Jun 02, 2010
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Healthguide - Yellow Fever. Sep 15, 2008
Media added. Jun 28, 2007
Added new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Yellow Fever. Nov 07, 2006
Article revised and updated. May 18, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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