SLIDE 11 YF in Americas and 334 years in Brazil, since 1685
Year/period Type of event Event Geographical location
3000 BP
Probable origin of yellow fever in Africa, according to modern sequence analysis of the viral genome.[11]
Africa
1494
Epidemic Disease outbreaks similar in signs and symptoms to yellow fever are reported from Canary islands and Cape Verde off the coast of Africa, and sometimes in coastal countries such as Gambia, and Sierra Leone.[2]
West Africa
1647
Epidemic The first definitive outbreak of yellow fever in the Americas happens in the island of Barbados
Barbados
1648
Epidemic An outbreak is recorded by Spanish colonists in the Yucatán Peninsula, where the indigenous Mayan people call the illness xekik ("blood vomit"). Yellow fever is found in Mayan manuscripts describing an
- utbreak of the disease in the Yucatan
peninsula.[7][3]
Mexico
1649
Epidemic Yellow fever is brought in ships to and from Africa and the West Indies, to Gibraltar.[2]
Gibraltar
1668
Epidemic The first yellow fever outbreak in English- speaking North America occurs in New York City.[3]
United States
1669
Epidemic English colonists in Philadelphia and the French in the Mississippi River Valley record major outbreaks of yellow fever.[citation needed] United States
1685
Epidemic
Brazil suffers its first yellow fever epidemic, in Recife.[12]
Bethell, Leslie. Colonial Brazil. Cambridge University Press 1987
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