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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.
Version: 19 March 2013 Page 2 of 43 Introduction Yellow fever is a vector-borne disease resulting from the transmission of yellow fever virus to a human from the bite of an infected mosquito. It is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America.