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Although yellow fever and smallpox were two very destructive diseases that affected Colonial America, many other diseases affected the area during this time. During the early days of the colonial settlement, people brought with them contagious diseases. After the importation of African slaves, more serious parasitic diseases came to Colonial ...
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 ...
During the American Civil War, New Orleans was occupied with Union troops, and the local populace believed that yellow fever would only kill the northern troops. [1] These rumors instilled fear into the Union troops, and they actively practiced sanitation and quarantine procedures during their occupation in 1862 until the government pulled federal troops out of the city in 1877. [2]
The outbreak of yellow fever in Barcelona in 1821. The evolutionary origins of yellow fever are most likely African. [1] [2] Phylogenetic analyses indicate that the virus originated from East or Central Africa, with transmission between primates and humans, and spread from there to West Africa. [3]
J. W. Schull (1849 – July 30, 1876) was an American sailor who was the first victim—and believed source of—the yellow fever that struck the United States in the summer of 1876. In the six-week period following his infection, around 5,000 (18%) of the approximately 28,000 residents of Savannah, Georgia , had fled the city to escape the ...
A History of Public Health: From Past to Present (2022) online; Deutsch, A. The Mentally Ill in America: A History of Their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times (1937). Duffy, John. Epidemics in Colonial America (1953) online; Duffy, John. The Healers: A History of American Medicine (U of Illinois Press, 1976) online; Duffy, John.
Yellow fever eroded public virtue, the cornerstone of a health republic." [85] General 20th-century US histories, such as the 10-volume Great Epochs in American History, published in 1912, used short excerpts from Carey's account. [86] The first history of the epidemic to draw on more primary sources was J. H. Powell's Bring Out Your Dead (1949 ...
Western Hemisphere populations were ravaged mostly by smallpox, but also typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, mumps, yellow fever, and pertussis. The lack of written records in many places and the destruction of many native societies by disease, war, and colonization make estimates uncertain.