Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — Why Have Yellow Fever? [ARTICLE]

Why Have Yellow Fever?

Singularly flattering reports continue to be made concerning Dr. Domingos Freire’s system of preventive inoculation in yellow fever. A late one to the Paris Biological Society states that during the three hot months in Brazil ending with February last, 3,051 subjects were inoculated in Rio de Janeiro, and not one had the fever, whereas in the same districts and houses 278 non-vaccinated succumbed to the disease. What is more remarkable is that severe cases were inoculated in the bbcond stage of the disease, and all recovered.