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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 vast majority of them died of yellow fever , making the epidemic in the city of 50,000 people one of the most severe in United States history.
A Short Account of the Malignant Fever [1] A Short Account of the Malignant Fever (1793) was a pamphlet published by Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) about the outbreak of the Yellow Fever epidemic Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia in the United States. The first pamphlet of 12 pages was later expanded in three ...
With the spread of yellow fever in 1793, physicians of the time used the increase number of patients to increase the knowledge in disease as the spread of yellow fever, helping differentiate between other prevalent diseases during the time period as cholera and typhus were current epidemics of the time as well. [13]
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1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic; 1800s. 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic; 1849-1850 Tennessee cholera epidemic; 1853 yellow fever epidemic [1]
The yellow fever vaccine, which has been available for 80 years, isn’t part of standard immunizations in the U.S. and is mainly administered when people are traveling to a place that has active ...
The 1793 yellow fever epidemic, the largest outbreak of the disease in American history, killed as many as 5,000 people in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – roughly 10% of the population. [3] Ffirth joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1801 to study medicine, and in his third year he began researching the disease that had so significantly ...
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