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Malaria - and its cousin, yellow fever - had significant implications during the war and the debilitating consequences of the disease were already certain before the Civil War had started in earnest and well before its final history had been written.
Yellow and Dengue Fever. There are no yellow fever and dengue fever epidemics in our county. The vector mosquito (a mosquito that transmits disease) Aedes aegypti disappeared in year 2000, but we do have other species of vector mosquito, such as the Aedes albopictus. Our county is a tourist area where it is possible to have imported cases of Dengue Fever and Yellow Fever.