HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — Lon Wagner, author of "The Fever: The Most Fatal Plague in American History," discusses his research into a challenging moment in local history, and how his book frames the story ...

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The yellow fever vaccine is a live vaccine, meaning it contains a weakened form of the virus. For most people, a single yellow fever vaccine can provide lifelong protection against the virus. Yellow ...

Experts are warning that yellow fever — which hasn’t had a major outbreak in the U.S. since 1905 — could make a comeback. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Getty Image) When you think of yellow ...

Vaccine researcher Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, became a national figure during the COVID-19 outbreak — the straight-talking ...

Yellow fever is a viral illness spread by mosquitoes in some parts of Africa and South America. You can take a single-dose ...