IT OCCUPIES a strange place on
the spectrum of infectious tropical diseases. Not as important as malaria. Not
as terrifying as Ebola. Not as revolting as elephantiasis. Yet yellow fever is
a grave illness, incurable once contracted. It kills 80,000 Africans a year.
And that is a scandal, both because it can be prevented by a single inoculation
and also because yellow fever now risks spreading to Asia, where it has never before
taken hold.
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