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Spanish colonists recorded an outbreak in 1648 on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico that may have been yellow fever. The illness was called xekik (black vomit) by the Maya . At least 25 major outbreaks followed in North America , such as in 1793 in Philadelphia , where several thousand people died, more than nine percent of the total population.
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. [3] ... An outbreak was recorded by Spanish colonists in 1648 in the Yucatán Peninsula, ...
1648 Central America yellow fever epidemic 1648 Central America: Yellow fever: Unknown [77] Naples Plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1656–1658 Italy Bubonic plague: 1,250,000 [78] 1663–1664 Amsterdam plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1663–1664 Amsterdam, Netherlands Bubonic plague: 24,148 [79]
Yellow Fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, when it bites an infected person it carries several thousand infective doses of the disease making it a carrier for life passing it from human to human. [14] Yellow Fever made its first appearance in America in 1668, in Philadelphia, New York and Boston in 1693. It had been brought over from Barbados. [12]
Du Tertre was the first who described the yellow fever when several epidemics burst over Guadeloupe and Saint Christopher in 1635, 1640, 1648 and 1667.
1648 – Yellow fever epidemic. [3] 1823 – Yucatán becomes part of Mexico. [4] 1847 – Caste War of Yucatán begins. 1869 – Revista de Mérida newspaper begins publication. 1888 - Paseo de Montejo opened. 1892 – Government Palace (Palacio de Gobierno) built. [3] 1900 – Population: 43,630. [2]
What one nurse learned about humanity amidst the Ebola epidemic
1702 – Yellow fever epidemic kills more than 500 people. [15] 1703 Federal Hall facing Wall Street, New York's city hall, built. [16] 42% of households enslaved people, second in the colonies only to Charleston. 1704 – The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel sends Elias Neau to minister to enslaved African Americans in North America ...