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Who made the yellow fever vaccine?

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What are treatments used for yellow fever today?

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he reduced the yellow fever and malaria that killed many workers building the canal.


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Is scarlet fever found worldwide?

Yes. There is some definite concern that it might even return to the US as a result of global warming and restrictions on pesticide use that works on the mosquitoes that carry it. a disease spread by mosquitoes, but the victim would have yellow and bloodshot eyes. The victim would also be coughing and vomiting an excessive amount of black, stale blood. yellow fever is a disease that killed tens of thousands of people in the colonies in the late 1700s. It was centralized in Africa, but then slaves came with the Yellow fever and with mosquitoes. There still is Yellow fever around, but there is now a cure and a vaccine made.


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What type of fever Helen Keller have that made hear deaf and blind?

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