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Richard Bayley, physician, died in 1801 of yellow fever caught while inspecting a ship that had arrived in New York City from Ireland. Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, Brazilean politician, diplomat and magistrate, died in 1856 in Rio de Janeiro, possibly of yellow fever, although the cause was never established.
New York doctors finally admitted that they had had an outbreak of yellow fever in 1791 that killed more than 100 people. All the cities that suffered epidemics continued to grow rapidly. During the epidemic of 1798, Benjamin Rush commuted daily from a house just outside the city, near what is now 15th and Columbia streets, to the new city ...
William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854 – July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry these diseases, for which he used the discoveries made by the Cuban ...
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. ...
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The following is a list of famous people born in the U.S. state of Ohio, and people who spent significant periods of their lives living in Ohio. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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Stubbins Ffirth (1784–1820) [1] was an American trainee doctor notable for his unusual investigations into the cause of yellow fever.He theorized that the disease was not contagious, believing that the drop in cases during winter showed that it was more likely a result of the heat and stresses of the summer months.