This is quite the sobering retrospective. Have we learned anything? Medically, yes! Societally, perhaps! For sure tho we are fortunate to have thoughtful thorough researchers like Olivarius among us. As well the MV Voice which publishes carefully curated & helpful stories such as this one. Thx to both of you!

A few choice quotes:

- What the world is experiencing now as a crisis is something people lived with perpetually in the 19th century, she said. Without antibiotics, antiviral drugs or even knowledge of the underlying cause of yellow fever, staying healthy was a major concern. "You had to reconcile yourself to this precarity in the past," she said.

- Yellow fever was fearsome, killing 50% of its victims.