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The outbreak of yellow fever in Barcelona in 1821. The evolutionary origins of yellow fever are most likely African. [1] [2] Phylogenetic analyses indicate that the virus originated from East or Central Africa, with transmission between primates and humans, and spread from there to West Africa. [3]
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There was a stark racial disparity in mortality rates: "7.4 percent of whites who contracted yellow fever died, while only 0.2 percent of blacks perished from the disease." [ 2 ] As historian Kathryn Olivarius observed in Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom , "For enslaved Blacks, the story was different.
Regional arbovirus infections: California serogroup virus, Eastern equine encephalitis virus, Powassan virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, Western equine encephalitis virus: Varicella voster infection- chickenpox, shingles, and unspecified Chickenpox: Chickenpox (regional) Chickenpox (i.e., varicella) - morbidity and deaths only Chikungunya fever
The first human virus to be identified was the yellow fever virus. [6] In 1881, Carlos Finlay (1833–1915), a Cuban physician, first conducted and published research that indicated that mosquitoes were carrying the cause of yellow fever, [7] a theory proved in 1900 by commission headed by Walter Reed (1851–1902).
Finlay's work, carried out during the 1870s, finally came to prominence in 1900. He was the first to theorize, in 1881, that a mosquito was a carrier, now known as a disease vector, of the organism causing yellow fever: a mosquito that bites a victim of the disease could subsequently bite and thereby infect a healthy person. [4]
West Nile virus: West Nile fever: Under research [42] Trichosporon beigelii: White piedra (tinea blanca) No Yersinia pseudotuberculosis: Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection No Yersinia enterocolitica: Yersiniosis: No Yellow fever virus: Yellow fever: Yes: Zeaspora fungus: Zeaspora: No Zika virus: Zika fever: Under research [43]
The yellow fever epidemic occurred during late 1870, beginning in August to the end of the year. There were a total of 1235 deaths; 468 women and 767 men. [ 1 ] The epidemic ended due to the city following hygienic measures and the mosquitoes not surviving Barcelona's cold weather conditions in December 1870. [ 1 ]