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  2. 1853 yellow fever epidemic - Wikipedia

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    The 1853 yellow fever epidemic of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean islands resulted in thousands of fatalities. Over 9,000 people died of yellow fever in New Orleans alone, [1] around eight percent of the total population. [2] Many of the dead in New Orleans were recent Irish immigrants living in difficult conditions and without any acquired ...

  3. History of yellow fever - Wikipedia

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    History of yellow fever. ... Yellow fever's prevalence during this era killed over 10,000 people starting in 1793 where nearly 5,000 people died, striking again in ...

  4. Disease in colonial America - Wikipedia

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    Yellow Fever made its first appearance in America in 1668, in Philadelphia, New York and Boston in 1693. It had been brought over from Barbados . [ 12 ] Throughout the Colonial period, there were several epidemics in those cities as well as Texas , New Hampshire , Florida and up the Mississippi River as far as St. Louis, Missouri . [ 12 ]

  5. Infectious disease experts are concerned about a potential ...

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    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 ...

  6. List of notable disease outbreaks in the United States

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    2003 Midwest monkeypox outbreak; 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in spinach; 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks; 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak

  7. Walter Reed - Wikipedia

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    Walter Reed (September 13, 1851 – November 23, 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than by direct contact.

  8. Josiah C. Nott - Wikipedia

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    Yellow Fever contrasted with Bilious Fever — Reasons for believing it is a disease sui generis — Its mode of Propagation — Remote Cause — Probable insect or animalcular origin, &c. New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 4 (1848), pp. 563–601. Nott, Josiah Clark. Sketch of the Epidemic of Yellow Fever of 1847, in Mobile.

  9. Ashbel Smith - Wikipedia

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    The society immediately set about to request that the Texas Congress establish a system of public education in Texas. [1] In 1839, a yellow fever epidemic broke out in Galveston, and Smith treated the victims of the disease while writing reports about the treatment of the disease in the Galveston News.