“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.

They personify it as "Yellow Jack," and represent him as tripping around the streets, slaying his thousands and grinning as he says; they characterize it as "Bronze John," and figure him as ...

But after performing an autopsy on the last man to die, he thought of yellow jack. He checked, found that all five dead were jungle farmers from an area 35 miles east of Panama City.

Even the editor of one of Tallahassee’s newspapers, the Tallahassee Floridian, died from yellow fever that year. In May 1841, Yellow Jack traveled from either Port St. Joe or Port Leon (accounts ...