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EYE on Yellow Fever

Aug 19, 2021

In the days before scientists understood how yellow fever was transmitted - and well before there was a vaccine - people referred to the disease by how it manifested itself. They called it “Vómito Negro” - black vomit. In this episode, Dr Sylvain Aldighieri from the Pan American Health Organization helps us chart...


Aug 5, 2021

In 2016, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo stood on the brink of a major public health disaster. In this episode, we hear about how a yellow fever outbreak on the west coast of southern Africa spread to China and posed a threat to the entire world. We also hear of how the brave experiment to split the...