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Malaria - and its cousin, yellow fever - had significant implications during the war and the debilitating consequences of the disease were already certain before the Civil War had started in earnest and well before its final history had been written.
Yellow Fever Description. An acute, infectious, hemorrhagic viral disease. It is characterized by sudden onset of fever, bradycardia, and headache; with jaundice and hemorrhaging occuring in severe cases.Yellow-fever, a flavivirus and member of the Arbovirus family, is an enveloped virus.he yellow-fever virus can also be passed from one mosquito generation to another via the mosquito eggs. Yellow fever virus has been isolated from other insect vectors, such as: phlebotomine flies, horse mosquitoes (Brazil), common ticks (Amblyomma variegatum) in West Africa, and other parasitic arthropods.