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Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia | August 21, 1793 | HISTORY

Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia. On August 21, 1793, prominent Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush alerts the city's mayor that an ...

1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic - Wikipedia

During the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the register of deaths between August 1 and November 9.

The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793

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When the Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1793 Sent the Wealthy Fleeing ...

By the time it subsided in November 1793, the disease had killed 5,000 people, or about one-tenth of Philadelphia's population at the time, and ...

Epidemic in Philadelphia | American Experience | Official Site - PBS

On October 31, a white flag flew over the city hospital, signifying that no yellow fever patients remained. The disease caused an estimated 5,000 deaths that ...

Philadelphia Under Siege: The Yellow Fever of 1793

The yellow fever epidemic of 1793 was the first and deadliest outbreak in a series of yellow fever epidemics that forced Americans in and outside of ...

Diagnosing and Treating Yellow Fever in Phila, 1793

Yellow Fever claimed 5,000 lives, or ten percent of Philadelphia's population, between August 1 and November 9, 1793. ​. Yellow Fever is a virus transmitted ...

Reports on the yellow fever epidemic, 1793

Between August 1 and November 9, 1793, approximately 11,000 people contracted yellow fever in the US capital of Philadelphia. Of that number, 5,000 people, ...

History of Yellow Fever in the U.S. - American Society for Microbiology

Domingue arrived at the ports of Philadelphia, it was primed for a mosquito-driven epidemic. The city was surrounded by marshes and swamps, and ...

Philadelphia 1793 · Malignant Fever - Online Exhibits

In August 1793, yellow fever broke out in Philadelphia. The majority of the federal government-including President Washington, his Cabinet, and members of ...

The Yellow Fever Epidemic - Historical Society of Pennsylvania

In 1793, Philadelphia was struck with the worst outbreak of Yellow Fever ever recorded in North America. The fever took a devastating toll on the city as ...

Major American Epidemics of Yellow Fever (1793-1905) - PBS

Yellow fever appeared in the U.S. in the late 17th century. The deadly virus ... Philadelphia; August-November 1793; approximately 5,000 dead ... As the 19th ...

Yellow Fever - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

Yellow fever struck Philadelphia and other northern ports only sporadically after 1820, but it remained a persistent problem in the American South until the ...

New York City (NYC) Yellow Fever Epidemic - NYCdata | Disasters

The first yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia in 1793, killing approximately 5,000 people. The pandemic that emerged so close to New York City (NYC) ...

Short history of the yellow fever, that broke out in the city of ...

Short history of the yellow fever, that broke out in the city of Philadelphia, in July 1797: with a list of the dead; of the donations for the relief of the ...

Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America | NLM

Yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia in 1793. The deadly disease touched nearly everyone in the city: young and old, white and African American, wealthy and poor, ...

How Yellow Fever decimated the USA's first capital

In 1793, with the United States of America less than 20 years old, a yellow fever epidemic decimates the capital city, Philadelphia, ...

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

Yellow fever, gone from Philadelphia for 30 years, had returned, and more and more people were falling ill. Those who could get out fled the ...

Location, location, location! - PMC - PubMed Central

In 1793, a brutal yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia, killing thousands. Doctors in the city viciously argued in the newspapers over the cause and cure of ...

Perspectives on an Epidemic: The Yellow Fever in 1793 Philadelphia

It also notes that the official descriptions given by the doctors of the time are not the entire story and that they leave some important things out. This ...