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white blood cells (B cells)
whites and death from yellow fever
WHO (World Health Organization)
Widal test
“wigglers,”
Wilkerson Drugs, Memphis
Williams, Greer
Wilson, Bruce
Winchester, James
Wolf River, Memphis
Woodworth, John M. (Surgeon General)
World Health Organization (WHO)
“worthy,” perished for the “unworthy,”
Writer, Jim
Yale (USS)
“yard sales” for slaves
yellow cardboard to mark doorway of
yellow fever. See also Cuba (); Memphis (); mosquitoes; mosquito theory; United States (present day)
African rain forest and
age of patient and
antibiotics vs.
atmospheric conditions and
bacteria theory
bioterrorism and
yellow fever (continued)
blacks and death from
cells (healthy) for replicating virus
children and death from
Civil War and
comeback of
convalescent period of
deaths from
disinfectants
Ebola vs.
El Niño cycle impact on
epidemic, single case as
epidemics ofand
fear created from
flavivirus
germ theory
horrors (mysterious) of
immigrants and death from
immunity to
incubation period of
journey from Old World
jungle yellow fever
monkeys as hosts for
noncontagious, yellow fever as
North America and
northern U.S. and
panic created from
plague, defined
quarantines
reasons for
recovery period and return of
sanitation and
self-medications for
skin, transmission through
slave trade and
southern U.S. and
symptoms of
treatments (ineffective) for
urban yellow fever
vaccines
virulency of
virus discovery
viruses
West Indies and
whites and death from
Yellow Fever Board (Cuba)
Yellow Fever Commission (Havana)
Yellow Fever Commission (Nigeria)
Yellow Fever Commission of Experts ()
yellow fever weather
yellow jack. See also yellow fever
Yellow Jack (Pierce and Writer)
Young, Casey H.
Young, William (Dr.)