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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.
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 ...
1986 Oju yellow fever epidemic 1986 Oju, Nigeria: Yellow fever: 5,600+ [216] 1987 Mali yellow fever epidemic 1987 Mali: Yellow fever: 145 [217] 1988 Shanghai hepatitis A epidemic 1988 Shanghai, China Hepatitis A: 31–47 [218] [219] [220] 1991 Bangladesh cholera epidemic 1991 Bangladesh: Cholera: 8,410–9,432 [221] 1991 Latin America cholera ...
This is a list of people who died of yellow fever. Pages in category "Deaths from yellow fever" The following 177 pages are in this category, out of 177 total. ...
The recurrences of yellow fever kept discussions about causes, treatment and prevention going until the end of decade. Other major ports also had epidemics, beginning with Baltimore in 1794, New York in 1795 and 1798, and Wilmington and Boston in 1798, making yellow fever a national crisis. New York doctors finally admitted that they had had an ...
Yellow fever vaccine is a vaccine that protects against yellow fever. [4] Yellow fever is a viral infection that occurs in Africa and South America. [4] Most people begin to develop immunity within ten days of vaccination and 99% are protected within one month, and this appears to be lifelong. [4] The vaccine can be used to control outbreaks of ...
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 ...
1878 Lower Mississippi Valley yellow fever epidemic; 1900s. 1900–1904 San Francisco plague epidemic; 1916 New York City polio epidemic;