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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]
Yellow fever accounted for the largest number of the 19th-century's individual epidemic outbreaks, and most of the recorded serious outbreaks of yellow fever occurred in the 19th century. It is most prevalent in tropical-like climates, but the United States was not exempted from the fever. [44]
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 ...
Experts are now concerned that yellow fever — which hasn’t had a major outbreak in the U.S. since 1905, when it killed 900 people in New Orleans — could make a comeback as well. What’s ...
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.
At least 258 people have been killed and there have been around 1,975 suspected cases of the mosquito-borne disease since December 2015.
[10] Correspondence indicates that slave trader C.M. Rutherford and trader-turned-planter Rice C. Ballard intended to file an insurance claim on a 23-year-old enslaved man named Charles Craig, who had apparently been killed by yellow fever. [11] Yellow fever killed over 500 in Galveston, Texas, in 1853. [12] It arrived in Pensacola in July on ...
Tennessee cholera epidemic (1849–1850) 1853 yellow fever epidemic; 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic; 1924–1925 Minnesota smallpox epidemic; 1962–1965 rubella epidemic; 1976 swine flu outbreak; 1987 Carroll County cryptosporidiosis outbreak; 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak; 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak