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Painting of the Staten Island Quarantine Facility—built in 1799 to care for yellow fever patients, where by the 1850s all passengers from newly arrived ships with signs of a disease were quarantined. The image is an oil painting showing a bustling waterway with lots of tall ships with sails lowered and smaller vessels ferrying cargo to them. GETTY IMAGES/Keith Lance

Plague Ships, Shotgun Mobs, and the "Saffron Scourge"

by Jason Socrates Bardi, Caroline Kantis

Recalling the massive, deadly New Orleans yellow fever epidemic of 1878—and what lessons it holds for coronavirus today

Urbanization
This 2005 photograph depicts a female Aedes aegypti mosquito, the primary vector for the spread of Dengue fever. The photo is a close-up of a mosquito taking a blood meal, making its belly bright red and striking against a bokeh green background

What’s to Blame for Dengue’s Rise? It’s not Only Climate Change

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Lucas Earl

Fueled by urbanization disease will threaten 6 billion people by 2080, with economically-disadvantaged areas hardest hit

Health care workers protesting shortage of medical supplies outside a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela on November 19, 2019. The picture shows an older woman in the foreground wearing blue hospital scrubs shouting and looking slightly off camera. She is surrounded by other protestors, many of whom are waving protest signs and also shouting. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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The Human Toll of Political Strife: Malaria’s Rise in Venezuela

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Lucas Earl

Crisis-fueled resurgence of disease in Venezuela threatens progress made by several South American countries