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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 ...
Elmwood is an unincorporated community in Saline County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] History. Elmwood was platted in 1867. [2] A variant spelling was "Elm Wood ...
Her immediate family died during the Yellow Fever epidemics of 1877 and 1878, after which she was raised by her grandmother. [ 1 ] Warner attended St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee and was among the first students accepted at the Memphis Training School for Nurses (1887).
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.
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.
Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers moved from barracks to a tent camp at Tucker's Town, St. George's Parish, Bermuda, in 1867 to prevent the spread of Yellow fever Bermuda suffered four yellow fever epidemics in the 1800s, both mosquito-borne and via visiting ships, which in total claimed the lives of 13,356 people, including military and ...
The genomes of these flaviviruses show close synteny with that of the flavivirus type species, yellow fever virus. [7] One flavivirus, the Wenzhou shark flavivirus , infects both Pacific spadenose sharks ( Scoliodon macrorhynchos ) and Gazami crabs ( Portunus trituberculatus ) with overlapping ranges, raising the possibility of a two-host ...
Elmwood Township is an inactive township in Saline County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] Elmwood Township was erected in 1870, taking its name from the community ...