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Yellow Fever and the Emotional Consequences of Untreatable Epidemic Disease.
- Source :
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Einstein Journal of Biology & Medicine . 2014/2015, Vol. 30 Issue 1/2, p48-54. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Yellow fever terrorized communities in tropical and urban settings during its height in the nineteenth-century American south. Carried by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which breed in stagnant water, the virus infects humans fervently and is most known for its symptoms of jaundice and vomito negro, a dark vomit of coagulated blood. During the near-annual outbreaks of yellow fever, caregivers struggled to cope with the emotional consequences of failing medicine, sometimes leaving behind clues to their confusion in treating the disease and offering salient reflections on their inadequacies. The disease ravaged the Gulf region for decades. Records of the health workers' feelings of futility reflect their questions of what to do for others and what to do for themselves, offering a new perspective on yellow-fever scholarship and insight into contemporary clinical practice and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *YELLOW fever treatment
*EPIDEMICS
*BLOOD coagulation
*AEDES aegypti
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15595501
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Einstein Journal of Biology & Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 109328295