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Jefferson Davis Hospital operated from 1924 to 1989 and was the first centralized municipal hospital to treat indigent patients in Houston, Texas. [2] It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
James Bailey (1801–1880) was Mayor of the city of Houston, Texas in 1846. [1] [2] Bailey immigrated to Houston from New Hampshire in 1838. [3] In 1840, Bailey was elected as an alderman representing the Fourth Ward of Houston. He chaired the Houston Board of Health in 1844, the year of a severe yellow fever epidemic.
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Yellow fever is caused by yellow fever virus (YFV), an enveloped RNA virus 40–50 nm in width, the type species and namesake of the family Flaviviridae. [10] It was the first illness shown to be transmissible by filtered human serum and transmitted by mosquitoes, by American doctor Walter Reed around 1900. [32]
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.
Pages in category "Yellow fever monuments and memorials" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee) H.
The Houston Review. 8 (2): 56– 78. Hall, Andrew P. (2012). Galveston-Houston Packet: The Steamboats on Buffalo Bayou. Charleston, SC: The History Press. ISBN 978-1609495916. Hogan, William Ransom (1946). The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History. Austin: Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 978-0-87611-220-5. Jackson, Susan ...
Jesse William Lazear (May 2, 1866 – September 25, 1900) was an American physician. In 1900, he deliberately allowed a mosquito to bite him to prove his hypothesis that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever transmission.