Sentences with phrase «contracting yellow fever»

In reality, the risk of contracting yellow fever is extremely low.

But upon arriving, the family was quarantined by Italian authorities, who feared (mistakenly) that they had contracted yellow fever in New York.

The authors noted that most people who contract yellow fever do not have symptoms, but among the 15 percent of patients who develop severe illness, the fatality rate is between 20 percent and 60 percent.

Not exact matches

Reducing even some number of bites could help prevent cases of malaria, yellow fever and dengue — all contracted and transmitted via the bite of the female mosquito.

But in some ways yellow fever in South America is scarier: Because of the low natural immunity there, it kills one - third of those who contract it.