Yellow-fever Sentence Examples

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  • At last, through Fouche and Talleyrand, he got the appointment of consul at Alicante, and remained there until he lost the sight of one eye from yellow fever.

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  • Cholera (Haffkine) and yellow fever are yielding up their secrets, and falling under some control.

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  • Although it had long been suspected that these insects were in some way connected with malaria and other diseases, while that the species now called Stegomyia calopus was the carrier of yellow fever had been asserted by Finlay as early as 1881, it was not until the closing years of the 19th century that the brilliant researches of Ross in India, and of Grassi and others in Italy, directed the attention of the whole civilized world to mosquitoes as the exclusive agents in the dissemination of malarial fever.

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  • There is reason to believe that malaria, yellow fever and filariasis are not the only diseases disseminated by mosquitoes.

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  • Mangrove swamps surround the town and epidemics of cholera, yellow fever and other tropical diseases have been frequent; but the unhealthiness of the climate is mitigated to some extent by the high tides which cover the marshes, and the invigorating breezes which blow in from the sea.

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  • The climate is mild and healthy, although serious epidemics of yellow fever and typhus have occurred.

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  • In 1888 there was an epidemic of yellow fever.

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  • It is notoriously unhealthy; yellow fever is endemic. Little Bassam, renamed by the French Port Bouet, possesses an advantage over the other ports on the coast, as at this point there is no bar.

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  • At seventeen years of age she 5 married General Leclerc, a staff officer of Napoleon, and accompanied him to St Domingo, where he died of yellow fever in 1802.

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  • On both coasts yellow fever epidemics appear at frequent intervals.

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  • There was a disastrous fire in 1829, an epidemic of yellow fever in 1839, and a flood in 1840, but the growth of the city was not seriously checked; the cotton receipts of 1846 were 212,019 bales, and in 1847 a cotton factory was built.

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  • He died of yellow fever at Beaufort, South Carolina, on the 30th of October 1862.

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  • Owing to this, as well as to the entire lack of proper sanitary customs among the people, the horrible condition of sewerage and the prevalence of yellow fever (first brought to Havana, it is thought, in 1761, from Vera Cruz), the reputation of the city as regards health was long very bad.

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  • The practical extermination of yellow fever during the U.S. military occupation following 1899 was a remarkable achievement.

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  • The number of subsequent deaths from yellow fever has depended solely on the degree to which the necessary precautionary measures were taken.

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  • In the course of the 17th century the port became the great 1 Dr Carlos Finlay of Havana, arguing from the coincidence between the climatic limitation of yellow fever and the geographical limitation of the mosquito, urged (1881 sqq.) that there was some relation between the disease and the insect.

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  • The decrease of population between 1870 and 1880 was due to the ravages of yellow fever in 1873, 1878 and 1879.

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  • Maury introduced the cultivation of cinchona in Mexico so that quinine could be produced to fight yellow fever.

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  • Most GPs can't give this jab - you have to go to a designated yellow fever clinic.

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  • He received a pardon for the work he performed during a yellow fever outbreak in the fort.

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  • In the UK, these include rubella, mumps, measles (usually given together as MMR ), BCG and yellow fever.

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  • A few months later, while visiting troops in Mobile, Alabama, he contracted yellow fever and died on July 3, 1849.

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  • The American military authorities found that the most extraordinary measures for cleansing the city - involving repeated house-to-house inspection, enforced cleanliness, improved drainage and sewerage, the destruction of various public buildings, and thorough cleansing of the streets - although decidedly effective in reducing the general death-rate of the city (average, 1890-1899, 45.83; 1900, 24.40; 1901, 22.11; 1902, 20.63; general death-rate of U.S. soldiers in 1898, 6794; in 1901-1902, 7.00), apparently did not affect yellow fever at all.

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  • In 1935, a vaccine for yellow fever was created.

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  • In the UK, these include rubella, mumps, measles (usually given together as MMR), BCG and yellow fever.

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  • Oral typhoid may be given concurrently with yellow fever or HNIG.

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  • You also need a yellow fever vaccination certificate to gain entry to Tanzania.

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  • In the year 1871 the memorable epidemic of yellow fever broke out at Buenos Ayres.

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  • In addition the uses discussed above, vaccines are available for preventing anthrax, cholera, plague, tuberculosis, and yellow fever.

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  • The only vaccines which should not be given at the same time are cholera and yellow fever vaccines.

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  • Vaccines possibly linked to AP include those for typhoid, measles, cholera, and yellow fever.

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  • His health had broken down, and he visited the West Indies, where his wife died of yellow fever.

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  • In 1855 it suffered severely from yellow fever.

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  • Perry commanded the "Java" in the Mediterranean expedition of 1815-1816, and he died at Port of Spain in Trinidad on the 23rd of August 1819, of yellow fever contracted on the coast of Brazil.

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  • The city of Panama was formerly a stronghold of yellow fever and malaria, which American sanitary measures have practically eradicated.

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  • The Stegomyia mosquito is the agent of yellow fever inoculation.

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  • Since then yellow fever has ceased to be a scourge in Cuba.

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  • Small-pox was the cause of a greater mortality than yellow fever even before the means of combating the latter had been ascertained.

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  • In connexion with the university is a botanical garden; with the national sanitary service, a biological laboratory, and special services for small-pox, glanders and yellow fever.

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  • Most notable of all, yellow fever was eradicated where it had been endemic for centuries.

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  • The appearance of yellow fever in 1849, until then unknown in Brazil, was attributed to the importation of slaves.

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  • Among the public buildings are several churches and hospitals (including the Jurujuba yellow-fever hospital and the Barreto isolation hospital), the government palace, a municipal theatre and a large Salesian college situated in the suburbs of Santa Rosa on an eminence overlooking the lower bay.

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