Yellow fever was once known as 'black vomit'!
Certainly a descriptive name, and worse sounding than yellow fever, don't you think?
And in the 1800s British explorers thought it was caused by 'miasma', basically bad air, and never
expected it to be started by mosquitoes and easily communicable. So they did everything (except drink quinine - the one preventative cure) to keep from getting it, to no avail. Eventually they made the connection between the few who drank quinine and lived, and the many who didn't and died...
Black Vomit...Ugh!
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