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
• Large swaths of Brazil have long been at risk for yellow fever.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• On Key West, the victims of waves of yellow fever from the late 1800s are buried in the vast cemetery.
  — jsonline.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• The letter cites the yellow fever scare in Laredo in the early 1900s.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 18 Apr. 2020
• Think of it as the 21st-century version of the yellow fever card.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• There is no cure for yellow fever, but there is a vaccine.
  — Grace Donnelly, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2018
• 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
• In 1799, yellow fever struck New York City and Perkins rushed in with his tractor rods to save the day — and died of yellow fever.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2024
• But none of his insights prepared him for the loss of his younger brother to yellow fever.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• Typhoid fever has long been known to smell of baking bread; yellow fever smells of raw meat.
  — Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
• Like any medicine, the yellow fever vaccine can cause side effects.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2018
• One of the villains of yellow fever was Dr. Luke Pryor Blackburn.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• The British refused to let their 700 Royal Marines venture far from their ships for fear of yellow fever.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 5 May 2020
• Sao Paulo state has seen the most dramatic jump in cases of yellow fever.
  — Jill Langlois, latimes.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• His father, Nunzio, died of yellow fever when James was just 7.
  — Dominic Massa, NOLA.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• Aedes aegypti, which can spread diseases like dengue and yellow fever, are a species of what?
  — CNN, 20 Aug. 2020
• My room, the William Winters Room, is haunted by the spirit of a voodoo priestess brought in to save a child named Kate from yellow fever.
  — NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• 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
• In 1878, when yellow fever was spreading across the South, the officials in the town where I was raised threw open the doors of welcome for people fleeing the virus.
  — cleveland, 29 Apr. 2020
• Health workers are stretched thin at the best of times, and the DRC has been battling Ebola, outbreaks of cholera and yellow fever—and now the coronavirus.
  — Leslie Roberts, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2020
• Colonists, sickened by yellow fever and strains of malaria for which their bodies were not prepared, began to die at the rate of a dozen a day.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2018
• There is a long list of diseases, such as yellow fever, dengue and even rabies, that would benefit from the kind of resources the DOD can bring to bear.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• Oh, by the way, the mosquitoes that carry yellow fever range as far north as Canada in this scenario.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2023
• This increased the risk of the spread of disease, especially yellow fever.
  — David Goodhue Miami Herald (tns), al, 3 May 2023
• 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
• Brazil is suffering its worst outbreak of yellow fever in decades.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• That’s a constant problem in developing countries where conditions like cholera, typhoid or yellow fever are present, according to the World Health Organization.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024