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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. Yellow Fever is a viral infection caused by RNA viruses belonging to the Flavivirus genus. It is a zoonosis â an animal disease that can spread to humans â primarily transmitted by daytime biting Aedes Aegypti female mosquitoes, but also by mosquitoes belonging to the Haemagogus genus.