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The medical community and others in 1793 did not understand the role of mosquitoes in the transmission of yellow fever, malaria, and other diseases. [ 5 ] In the ports and coastal areas of the United States, even in the northeast , the months of August and September were considered the "sickly season," when fevers were prevalent.
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]
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 subsequent versions.
1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1793rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 793rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1793, the ...
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1820 Savannah yellow fever epidemic 1820 Savannah, Georgia, United States Yellow fever: 700 [132] 1821 Barcelona yellow fever epidemic 1821 Barcelona, Spain Yellow fever: 5,000–20,000 [133] [134] Second cholera pandemic: 1826–1837 Asia, Europe, North America Cholera: 100,000+ [135] 1828–1829 New South Wales smallpox epidemic 1828–1829
John James Audubon, famous ornithologist, caught yellow fever on arrival in New York City when he emigrated to the United States in 1803. He died of Alzheimer's disease in 1851. Benjamin Franklin Bache (journalist), died at age 29 in the yellow fever epidemic of 1798 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Haven, Connecticut and New York City.
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