It’s a reason I wrote @nejm.org article, when asked what virus epidemic threat frightens me more than any other my ANS: Yellow Fever: historically YF decimated cities/towns in Texas (Galveston, Huntsville, La Grange) and Southern U.S. New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis and could return. We’re not ready
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Fatality rate is 20%-60%. Yikes. There is a vaccine, but would RFK, Jr ever recommend it if Yellow Fever returned to the U.S.? I'm guessing...no.
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It took Walter Reed and other Army doctors to counter it so that the Americans could finish it - with lots of help from laborers who were descendants of slaves from Africa.
We don't want to relive all this, do we?