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The plant is a herbaceous perennial that grows into a small bush, [2] up to 70 cm (28 in) high, with pungently-scented leaves. The leaves are light yellowish green, variously pinnatifid . The conspicuous daisy-like flowers are up to 20 millimetres ( 3 ⁄ 4 in) across, borne in lax corymbs .
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 ...
1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic; 1800s. 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic; 1849-1850 Tennessee cholera epidemic; 1853 yellow fever epidemic [1]
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]
Boston City Hospital opened a scarlet fever pavilion in 1887 to house patients with infectious diseases and saw nearly 25,000 patients during 1895–1905. [57] In the mid-1800s, more specific epidemiological information was emerging and incidence in infants were found to be low. [ 57 ]
1934 Yellow Jack Broadway Playbill Promotional. The 1934 Yellow Jack theatrical production told the story of Walter Reed in the Yellow Fever Commission. The theatre production was cast with Sam Levene, James Stewart, Eddie Acuff, and Myron McCormick. The Broadway play was the basis of Yellow Jack, a 1938 movie presenting the same narrative.
Charles Griffin, Union general in the American Civil War, died in 1867 at the age of 41 in Galveston, Texas, during an epidemic of yellow fever. [3] Charles Frederick Hartt, Canadian-American geologist, paleontologist and naturalist who specialized in the geology of Brazil, died of yellow fever in 1878 at the age of 38 in Rio de Janeiro.
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 is a 2003 nonfiction adolescent history by author Jim Murphy published by Clarion Books. An American Plague was one of the finalists in the 2003 National Book Award and was a 2004 Newbery Honor Book. It portrays the agony and pain this disease brought upon ...