How to Use yellow fever in a Sentence

yellow fever

noun

• The cause: yellow fever, the same disease that killed his son.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• Think of it as the 21st-century version of the yellow fever card.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• Try a place founded when the threats were smallpox and yellow fever.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2021
• Britain’s soldiers and sailors died by the hundreds from yellow fever and scurvy.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
• One of the villains of yellow fever was Dr. Luke Pryor Blackburn.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• The idea of vaccine passports isn't new — it's already used in many countries to prevent the spread of yellow fever.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2021
• The travelers that the group encounters on the way there are fleeing not just the fire but also yellow fever.
  — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 15 May 2021
• There was a big outbreak of yellow fever in 1795, and Jupiter and Pluto were also together for that.
  — Emily Chan, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2020
• And for all, the daily struggle to survive is made even harder by epidemics of yellow fever and plagues of locusts.
  — Alida Becker, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• Madison lived through the yellow fever epidemic of 1793.
  — Christopher Beem, Quartz, 10 Aug. 2021
• If you are vaccinated for any travel illness, like yellow fever, the provider will send you a Carte Jaune.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• Seafarers once had to stop here and be tested for malaria and yellow fever — and perhaps submit to a longer stay.
  — Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• Deaths from cholera and yellow fever, which had been major killers before the war, plummeted in the decades afterward.
  — Jonathan S. Jones, STAT, 18 Apr. 2021
• He was bitten by accident and died of yellow fever 12 days later.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2020
• By contrast, Brazil did not apply its knowledge from yellow fever control to fight Covid.
  — Dr. Tom Frieden, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
• Zika virus is a flavivirus, part of the same family as yellow fever, West Nile, chikungunya and dengue fever.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 27 May 2021
• Equally little is known about his day-to-day role during yellow fever outbreaks.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• In Brazil, the mosquitos have been found to be infected with diseases such as the yellow fever virus and the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2021
• Orchid-hunters in the 19th century endured yellow fever and malaria, and risked being mauled by tigers or drowned in rivers—all in pursuit of a new species.
  — Kendra Pierre-Louis, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
• Reed was an American doctor who, with the help of colleagues, proved that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes.
  — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• These bugs are capable of spreading diseases like yellow fever and Zika but are not believed to carry the West Nile Virus.
  — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
• Also: The trouble with Dave Chappelle, a victory for fintech, and lessons learned (or not) from the yellow fever epidemic of 1790.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2021
• According to legend, Clara died in the hotel during the yellow fever epidemic of 1853.
  — Joe Sills, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Edmund Kirby Smith had contracted yellow fever in Texas in 1853; military pay vouchers show Darnes was with him in the early months of the year.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• First, graves were dug in the middle of cities, but with cholera and yellow fever epidemics, residents worried the crowded burial sites would spread disease.
  — Sarah Hume, The Courier-Journal, 28 Nov. 2022
• Vaccine cards are already in use for when people receive shots for diseases like malaria and yellow fever.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 20 Dec. 2020
• Meningococcal vaccines and non-U.S.-licensed yellow fever vaccines have been made available through this process, and with good results.
  — David Oshinsky, STAT, 9 Nov. 2020
• Among the prominent physicians from years past is Dr. Josiah Nott, who lost four children and a brother-in-law to one of Mobile’s yellow fever epidemics.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 27 Oct. 2020
• The result is a growing population of insects that don't pass on viruses such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 10 June 2021
• The sailors died of yellow fever in August 1857, while being treated at a quarantine station near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
  — Blake Pontchartrain, NOLA.com, 2 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024