How to Use yellow fever in a Sentence

yellow fever

noun
  • The cause: yellow fever, the same disease that killed his son.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Large swaths of Brazil have long been at risk for yellow fever.
    Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • On Key West, the victims of waves of yellow fever from the late 1800s are buried in the vast cemetery.
    jsonline.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The letter cites the yellow fever scare in Laredo in the early 1900s.
    Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Think of it as the 21st-century version of the yellow fever card.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • There is no cure for yellow fever, but there is a vaccine.
    Grace Donnelly, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Try a place founded when the threats were smallpox and yellow fever.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Britain’s soldiers and sailors died by the hundreds from yellow fever and scurvy.
    Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
  • In 1799, yellow fever struck New York City and Perkins rushed in with his tractor rods to save the day — and died of yellow fever.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Typhoid fever has long been known to smell of baking bread; yellow fever smells of raw meat.
    Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
  • Like any medicine, the yellow fever vaccine can cause side effects.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2018
  • One of the villains of yellow fever was Dr. Luke Pryor Blackburn.
    Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 27 June 2021
  • The British refused to let their 700 Royal Marines venture far from their ships for fear of yellow fever.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 5 May 2020
  • Sao Paulo state has seen the most dramatic jump in cases of yellow fever.
    Jill Langlois, latimes.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • His father, Nunzio, died of yellow fever when James was just 7.
    Dominic Massa, NOLA.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Aedes aegypti, which can spread diseases like dengue and yellow fever, are a species of what?
    CNN, 20 Aug. 2020
  • My room, the William Winters Room, is haunted by the spirit of a voodoo priestess brought in to save a child named Kate from yellow fever.
    NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The idea of vaccine passports isn't new — it's already used in many countries to prevent the spread of yellow fever.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The travelers that the group encounters on the way there are fleeing not just the fire but also yellow fever.
    Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 15 May 2021
  • In 1878, when yellow fever was spreading across the South, the officials in the town where I was raised threw open the doors of welcome for people fleeing the virus.
    cleveland, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Health workers are stretched thin at the best of times, and the DRC has been battling Ebola, outbreaks of cholera and yellow fever—and now the coronavirus.
    Leslie Roberts, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Colonists, sickened by yellow fever and strains of malaria for which their bodies were not prepared, began to die at the rate of a dozen a day.
    Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2018
  • There is a long list of diseases, such as yellow fever, dengue and even rabies, that would benefit from the kind of resources the DOD can bring to bear.
    Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • Oh, by the way, the mosquitoes that carry yellow fever range as far north as Canada in this scenario.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2023
  • This increased the risk of the spread of disease, especially yellow fever.
    David Goodhue Miami Herald (tns), al, 3 May 2023
  • There was a big outbreak of yellow fever in 1795, and Jupiter and Pluto were also together for that.
    Emily Chan, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2020
  • And for all, the daily struggle to survive is made even harder by epidemics of yellow fever and plagues of locusts.
    Alida Becker, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • Brazil is suffering its worst outbreak of yellow fever in decades.
    New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Mosquitoes belonging to the Aedes family cause most of the world’s malaria, dengue, yellow fever, West Nile, and Zika.
    Alice Park, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Most bites are harmless, but some mosquitoes transmit diseases such as dengue, malaria, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2024

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