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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 ...
Nearly 700 people in Savannah, Georgia, died from yellow fever in 1820, including two local physicians who lost their lives caring for the stricken. [19] An outbreak on an immigrant ship with Irish natives in 1819 led to a passage of an act to prevent the arrival of immigrant ships, which did not prevent the epidemic where 23% of the deaths ...
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.
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.
[10] [5] Over the next few decades, thousands of people were buried on the site and it became the final resting place for over 6,000 Confederate soldiers, former slaves, and city officials. [5] Also included among the graves were thousands of victims of the yellow fever and cholera epidemics. [ 6 ]
The entire Mississippi River Valley from St. Louis south was affected, and tens of thousands fled the stricken cities of New Orleans, Vicksburg, and Memphis.The epidemic in the Lower Mississippi Valley also greatly affected trade in the region, with orders of steamboats to be tied up in order to reduce the amount of travel along the Mississippi River, railroad lines were halted, and all the ...
Finlay's work, carried out during the 1870s, finally came to prominence in 1900. He was the first to theorize, in 1881, that a mosquito was a carrier, now known as a disease vector, of the organism causing yellow fever: a mosquito that bites a victim of the disease could subsequently bite and thereby infect a healthy person. [4]
Clara Louise Maass was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to German immigrants Hedwig and Robert Maass. She was the oldest of ten children in a devout Lutheran family. [3] Clara's family was impoverished and to help alleviate the financial burden of one child on her family, she went to work as a "mother's helper" for a local woman while finishing high school after her family had failed in the ...