How to Use yellow fever in a Sentence

yellow fever

noun
  • Large swaths of Brazil have long been at risk for yellow fever.
    — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Try a place founded when the threats were smallpox and yellow fever.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Like any medicine, the yellow fever vaccine can cause side effects.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Britain’s soldiers and sailors died by the hundreds from yellow fever and scurvy.
    — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Typhoid fever has long been known to smell of baking bread; yellow fever smells of raw meat.
    — Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
  • But none of his insights prepared him for the loss of his younger brother to yellow fever.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Brazil is suffering its worst outbreak of yellow fever in decades.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Aedes aegypti, which can spread diseases like dengue and yellow fever, are a species of what?
    — CNN, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Sao Paulo state has seen the most dramatic jump in cases of yellow fever.
    — Jill Langlois, latimes.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • War and yellow fever had combined to deprive many young people of parents.
    — James Karst, NOLA.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Think of it as the 21st-century version of the yellow fever card.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • They have been known to spread dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • His father, Nunzio, died of yellow fever when James was just 7.
    — Dominic Massa, NOLA.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • There’s no treatment for yellow fever, but unlike Zika, there a vaccine for it.
    — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • He was bitten by accident and died of yellow fever 12 days later.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The idea of vaccine passports isn't new — it's already used in many countries to prevent the spread of yellow fever.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2021
  • This increased the risk of the spread of disease, especially yellow fever.
    — David Goodhue Miami Herald (tns), al, 3 May 2023
  • Aedes aegypti, known as the yellow fever mosquito, is a small day-biting species with white stripes on their back and legs.
    — Bay City News, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
  • The travelers that the group encounters on the way there are fleeing not just the fire but also yellow fever.
    — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 15 May 2021
  • Seafarers once had to stop here and be tested for malaria and yellow fever — and perhaps submit to a longer stay.
    — Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • And for all, the daily struggle to survive is made even harder by epidemics of yellow fever and plagues of locusts.
    — Alida Becker, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • Oh, by the way, the mosquitoes that carry yellow fever range as far north as Canada in this scenario.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Colonists, sickened by yellow fever and strains of malaria for which their bodies were not prepared, began to die at the rate of a dozen a day.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2018
  • Deaths from cholera and yellow fever, which had been major killers before the war, plummeted in the decades afterward.
    — Jonathan S. Jones, STAT, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The letter cites the yellow fever scare in Laredo in the early 1900s.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 18 Apr. 2020
  • If you are vaccinated for any travel illness, like yellow fever, the provider will send you a Carte Jaune.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • That boosts sales for travel vaccines unavailable on the NHS, such as yellow fever.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Conditions are ripe for waterborne infections like dengue, yellow fever and malaria to spread.
    — ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • On Key West, the victims of waves of yellow fever from the late 1800s are buried in the vast cemetery.
    — jsonline.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Others like dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, and Zika have also continued to take lives over the years.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 12 June 2020

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