Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
1800–1803 Spain yellow fever epidemic 1800–1803 Spain Yellow fever: 60,000+ [124] 1801 Ottoman Empire and Egypt bubonic plague epidemic 1801 Ottoman Empire, Egypt: Bubonic plague: Unknown [125] 1802–1803 Saint-Domingue yellow fever epidemic 1802–1803 Saint-Domingue: Yellow fever: 29,000–55,000 [126] 1812 Russia typhus epidemic 1812 ...
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.
1795 – Yellow fever epidemic kills 732 between July 19 and October 12, from a total population of about 50,000. [30] 1796 Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded. December 9: The "Coffee House Slip Fire" burns from the foot of Wall Street and East River to Maiden Lane. [31] 1797 – Newgate Prison built. [32]
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. ...
The Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire have destroyed more than 2,000 structures as of Thursday morning, according to the Associated Press. In Los Angeles County, just over 215,000 customers were ...
Finlay's work, carried out during the 1870s, finally came to prominence in 1900. He was the first to theorize, in 1881, that a mosquito was a carrier, now known as a disease vector, of the organism causing yellow fever: a mosquito that bites a victim of the disease could subsequently bite and thereby infect a healthy person. [4]