Yellow Jack hit its victims indiscriminately and unpredictably. Some contracted just a touch of fever. Others suffered from an agonizing array of symptoms that left about 400 dead and more than ...

“Yellow jack” is back. The mosquito-borne disease known as yellow fever is primed for a resurgence, say medical experts, and the US is woefully unprepared.

Yellow fever (also called yellow jack, black vomit, or sometimes American Plague) is an acute viral disease. It is still an important cause of hemorrhagic illness in several African and South ...

About two minutes later, he surfaces with a 15-pound yellow jack impaled on a glinting spear. He... Lazaro Cabrera pulls a Neoprene hood over his crop of loopy black hair and slips ...

‘Dead House on the Schuylkill During the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793’ (undated) by David J. Kennedy, depicting the site where some of the bodies awaiting burial were stored.