yellow-fever

Between May 1 and August 31, 1905, the time of the so-called yellow-fever epidemic, yellow fever took forty-seven lives.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

Between May 1 and August 31, 1905, the time of the so-called yellow-fever epidemic, yellow fever took forty-seven lives.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

Finally, the 400-gram Toblerone chocolate I did finally capitulate and purchase, having no confidence I'd be able to obtain Swiss chocolate in the Third World country where I was heading (and if there's anything you don't want to be without in the bush, save, perhaps a yellow-fever inoculation, it's chocolate).

Duty Free: What's So Free? 2010

•During a two-week study trip last winter to Mali, West Africa, as part of a course, Virginia Tech student Christine George learned that local health workers knew very little about the habits ofa type of mosquito that carries the yellow-fever virus and has led to significant outbreaks in recent years.

Great heights: These undergrads set on solving problems 2008

Maia reads all she can, and when stern-faced Miss Minton, the governess, arrives to accompany her, Maia is ready, she thinks, to take on her new life, piranhas, yellow-fever and savages notwithstanding.

Archive 2008-03-01 tanita davis 2008

A yellow-fever epidemic in 1878 took her parents and left Ida to support her five younger siblings by becoming a schoolteacher.

An Anti-Lynching Firebrand 2008

Centers for Disease Control officials are more worried about disease-carrying skeeters including the yellow-fever and Eastern treehole varieties.

Bug Off 2008

Many baby-boomers at Intel, for lack of a better term, have 'yellow-fever'.

More On Intel Layoffs 2006

Maia reads all she can, and when stern-faced Miss Minton, the governess, arrives to accompany her, Maia is ready, she thinks, to take on her new life, piranhas, yellow-fever and savages notwithstanding.

The WritingYA Weblog: The Green Hell tanita davis 2008

History buffs have long been drawn to Mudd's story -- he was sentenced to life, but President Andrew Johnson pardoned him for staunching a yellow-fever outbreak in prison.

Periscope 2007