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Yellow fever epidemics and mortality in the United States


Yellow fever epidemics and mortality in the United States, 1693-1905

Yellow fever epidemics struck the United States repeatedly in the 18th and 19th centuries. The disease was not indigenous; epidemics were imported by ship ...

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

Yellow fever epidemics took more than 41,000 lives in New Orleans from 1817-1905, but the 1905 outbreak was America's last. Today, yellow fever continues to ...

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

Today, yellow fever is endemic in tropical and subtropical regions of South America and Africa. While the development of a yellow fever vaccine ...

Yellow fever epidemics and mortality in the United States, 1693–1905

Yellow fever epidemics caused terror, economic disruption, and some 100,000–150,000 deaths. Recent white immigrants to southern port cities were the most ...

Yellow Fever in America | American Experience - PBS

Yellow fever again strikes New Orleans, causing more than 900 deaths in the state of Louisiana. Mosquito mitigation efforts control the disease, marking the ...

The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 | DPLA

The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 ... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the United States, Caribbean, and South America experienced several major ...

YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMICS AND MORTALITY IN THE UNITED ...

Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, U.S.A.. Abstract-Yellow fever epidemics struck the United States ...

Yellow fever, the returning epidemic - PAHO/WHO

The disease is endemic in territories and regions of 13 countries in Central and South America, causing outbreaks and deaths. ... United States of America.

Yellow Fever - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

Death often occurs within 2 weeks during the toxic phase of the infection. Unvaccinated travelers to endemic areas are at high risk for developing symptomatic ...

Yellow Fever | CDC Yellow Book 2024

YF occurs in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America, where it is endemic and intermittently epidemic.

Yellow fever - World Health Organization (WHO)

Half of the patients who enter the toxic phase die within 7–10 days. Treatment. There is no specific anti-viral drug for yellow fever. Patients ...

Human Genetic Variation and Yellow Fever Mortality during 19th ...

In these six epidemics, the case fatality rate for Caucasians varied from 25.0 to 72.5%, while the case fatality rate for non-Caucasians varied from 1.1 to 14.1 ...

Yellow fever : symptoms, treatment, prevention - Institut Pasteur

The disease is endemic in Africa and in Central and South America. The case fatality rate is high, fluctuating between 20 and 60% from one outbreak to the next.

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.

Yellow Fever Timeline: The History Of A Long Misunderstood Disease

By the end of the 19th century, during the brief Spanish-American War, fewer than 1,000 soldiers died in battle, but more than 5,000 died of ...

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, ...

Yellow fever - Wikipedia

In the 18th and 19th centuries, yellow fever was considered one of the most dangerous infectious diseases; numerous epidemics swept through major cities of the ...

In the late 1800s, devastating yellow fever epidemics forced New ...

The period between the deadly yellow fever outbreak of 1878, which killed 4,000 people in New Orleans, and the discovery of the cause of the ...

Yellow Fever - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

Yellow fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease that is endemic in tropical areas of Africa and Latin America. Cases can be difficult to distinguish ...

Yellow fever epidemics and mortality in the United States, 1693-1905

Yellow fever epidemics caused terror, economic disruption, and some 100,000-150,000 deaths. Recent white immigrants to southern port cities were the most ...