O'Laughlen died in prison of yellow fever in 1867.

And somebody like Dr. Victoria Hale, who started the world's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, and whose first drug will be fighting visceral leishmaniasis, also known as black fever.

I'm very sorry if you have the flu, I know it's horrible, but we're not going to spend billions of dollars trying to reduce the duration of your flu symptoms by half a day.

Laird went with the expedition, which was led by Richard Lander and forty eight Europeans, all but nine of whom died from fever or, in the case of Lander, from wounds.