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Quakers & Historical Epidemics Part 1: Yellow Fever, 1793

This was the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, which overwhelmed the city's residents, Quakers and non-Quakers alike, from August to ...

Yellow Fever Epidemics - Tennessee Encyclopedia

Yellow fever cases were probably developing on the fringes of Memphis as early as late July, and by August 13 the first death was reported in the city itself.

The Yellow Fever Connection - Carpenters' Hall

In 1889, the French abandoned work on the Panama Canal, largely due to mosquito-borne malaria and yellow fever. A century earlier, the latter disease became ...

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 Deaths - City Archives & Special Collections

Our first step is usually to consult George Augustin's History of Yellow Fever (New Orleans, 1909), a thick volume that chronicles the year ...

New outbreak, familiar anxieties: Stanford historian examines yellow ...

Some two hundred years ago, yellow fever terrified many because there was no cure, no inoculation and no vaccination for the mosquito-borne ...

Yellow Fever: In the News on September 12, 1820

Yellow fever is a mosquito-born disease that most experts now believe originated in Africa and spread to the West (particularly in the West ...

The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Savannah, Georgia of 1876

... yellow fever threat. Also, the thesis will discuss applied historical analysis in theoretical terms and identify a model for the systematic analysis of past ...

What Is Yellow Fever? Disease and Causation in Environmental ...

Yellow fever emerged as a disease of historical import under conditions of early modern Atlantic World commerce and migration, and it relied on ...

History Is Lunch: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi

More than 140 years ago, Mississippi experienced a crippling epidemic. In July of 1878 yellow fever struck and raged until the end of November, sweeping across ...

The First Yellow Fever Pandemic: Slavery and Its Consequences

The origins and treatment of the disease drew intense debates as medical treatment became highly politicized, and the incorrect idea that ...

The Worst Outbreaks in U.S. History - Healthline

Smallpox · Yellow fever · Cholera · Scarlet fever · Typhoid Mary · 1918 H1N1 · Diphtheria · Polio ...

Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793: 'All was not right in our city' - WHYY

The yellow fever epidemic challenged the city's health and political infrastructure, and revealed a nation ill-prepared to support its ...

Yellow Fever Timeline: The History Of A Long Misunderstood Disease

in all likelihood, the disease started in the rain forests of Africa. It rode barges and sailing ships to tropical ports around the world, ...

The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 - Bunk History

Over the course of spring and summer of 1878, this region recorded 120,000 cases of yellow fever and between 13,000 and 20,000 deaths from the disease. The ...

Yellow Fever (U.S. National Park Service)

Yellow fever was one of the great health scourges of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Typically a tropical disease, it struck in sporadic epidemics.

Yellow Fever killed 10 percent in Philadelphia - The Washington Post

The yellow fever virus was isolated in 1927, and scientists soon came up with an effective vaccine, called 17D, a weakened form of the virus ...

The Question of Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever in History and ...

This belief is almost certainly wrong. An Absence of Historical Consensus. Proponents of a genetic immunity to yellow fever among black people point to, as.

yellow fever - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

The virus is transmitted from animals to humans and among humans by several species of mosquitoes. Yellow fever is one of the great epidemic diseases of the ...

A Comparative Study of the 1853 Yellow Fever Epidemic in New ...

This Article has been accepted for inclusion in the East Texas Historical Journal by an authorized editor of ETHA and SFA. This Article is brought to you free ...