"If you get yellow fever today your chances of survival are probably not much different than they were in the 1700s or the 1800. It's still going to be 1 out of every 5 or so who are going to die.

More Deadly Than War After the Spanish-American War of 1898, during which far more U.S. troops died from yellow fever than in battle, another board came to Cuba in 1900 to study the disease ...

March 13th marks five years since an emergency declaration was issued in 2020 for the unfolding COVID-19 outbreak. But it's far from the only deadly virus to impact the Port City over the years.