Yellow fever is a dangerous mosquito-borne virus that, for hundreds of years, has caused sporadic, deadly outbreaks in the tropics of South America, Central America, and Africa. According to a new ...

SHREVEPORT, La. -- This year marks 150 years since Yellow Fever killed nearly a quarter of Shreveport's population. The epidemic in 1873 killed more than 1,200 people in 12 weeks. Now, the city is ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — Shreveport lost one-fourth of its population in a few short weeks to the yellow fever epidemic, historian Gary Joiner once noted. “People died so quickly, including physicians ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - On Saturday, the new Shrine of the Five Priests, Servants of God was consecrated at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 315 Marshall Street, followed by an organ recital and an all-night ...

LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola declared the end of the world's worst yellow fever epidemic in a generation on Friday after a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign of 25 million people that resulted in no new ...

Beef tea, a hot foot bath, and a tablespoon of good brandy were among a list of recommended home treatments for yellow fever, printed in an 1876 column for the Savannah Morning News. Thankfully, we ...

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — Technology is revealing the burial site of two priest who died during Shreveport’s yellow fever epidemic. Catholic priests Father Isidore Quemerais and Father Louis ...

One hundred seventy years ago, the seeds of what would become the most fatal plague in American history sprouted on a ship docked more than 1,000 miles from Norfolk. The ship, the Benjamin Franklin, ...