Yellow fever epidemics and mortality in the United States
The second coming of urban yellow fever in the Americas ... - SciELO
Yellow fever (YF) is an acute disease due to a Flavivirus with an estimated incidence of 200,000 cases/year, and 30,000 deaths along the tropical areas of ...
Fatal Yellow Fever in Travelers to Brazil, 2018 | MMWR - CDC
Yellow fever virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes yellow fever, an acute infectious disease that occurs in South America and sub- ...
Yellow Fever: Practice Essentials, Background, Etiology
Case-fatality rates in South America are reportedly higher than in West Africa. Mortality is a function of patient susceptibility and of the ...
American Fevers, American Plagues | Science History Institute
The first began when yellow fever struck Philadelphia in 1793, killing 5,000 of the city's 50,000 inhabitants, and continued to 1805 in a series ...
New York City (NYC) Yellow Fever Epidemic - NYCdata | Disasters
The yellow fever epidemic which lasted until 1803, varied in severity. It reached epidemic proportions three times: in 1795, 1799, and 1803 claiming thousands ...
The Worst Outbreaks in U.S. History - Healthline
Smallpox · Yellow fever · Cholera · Scarlet fever · Typhoid Mary · 1918 H1N1 · Diphtheria · Polio ...
THE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC. - JAMA Network
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America's First Epidemic - Colonial Williamsburg
Yellow Fever, however, while far more common in the Wes Indies, was not unknown in America. After the 1793 epidemic, Dr. Benjamin Rush would ...
Yellow Fever - WHO | Regional Office for Africa
In 2016, during the two-linked urban yellow fever outbreaks – in Angola and DRC – 965 cases were confirmed and around 400 people died. The epidemic created an ...
The incidence and mortality of yellow fever in Africa: a systematic ...
Case fatality rate associated with yellow fever outbreaks ranged from 10% in Ghana to 86% in Nigeria. The mortality rate ranged from 0.1/100,000 ...
The Question of Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever in History and ...
Major epidemics in the United States typically had case mortality rates of about 20 percent (Duffy 1968), although there was considerable variation: for example ...
United States Navy Response to the 1855 Yellow Fever.pdf
THE UNITED STATES NAVY'S RESPONSE. TO THE 1855 YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC. Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia in the 1850s, with the Naval Hospital in the right ...
The 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic: The Washingtons, Hamilton and ...
The yellow fever epidemics that struck American cities soon after the birth of the nation left a powerful mark in the historical record, ...
Yellow Fever - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Yellow Fever broke out in epidemic proportion in 1793, 1797, 1798, and 1799. The most severe, and one of the most deadly in American history, occurred in 1793, ...
Yellow Fever Virus (YFV) - Florida Department of Health
Yellow fever currently occurs only in tropical regions of Africa and parts of South America. The last epidemic in North America occurred in New ...
Deaths from yellow fever, by age - Our World in Data
Death rates from different causes in the United States over the 20th century ... Infectious and parasitic diseases death rateWHO Mortality Database, age ...
Plague of the South: - ArcGIS StoryMaps
In the nineteenth century, the dreaded yellow fever haunted Texans with sickness and horrific death until its final epidemic in 1905.
Dramatic effects of control measures on deaths from yellow fever in ...
New Orleans was victim to several outbreaks, causing mass evacuation, with the 1853 epidemic killing an estimated 9,000 residents (McKiven 2007). The 1878 ...
Yellow Fever - Epidemics That Didn't Happen
From January to March of 2018, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported at least four deaths and 10 cases among international travelers ...
Mapping Yellow fever epidemics as a potential indicator of ... - SciELO
Yellow fever (YF) plagued the United States from the 1690s until 1905, resulting in thousands of deaths. Within the US, Aedes aegypti is the only YF vector and ...