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  2. List of disasters in New York City by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Yellow fever disease 500 [9] 1776 Battle of Long Island: warfare 364 [19] 1963 1963 New York City smog: pollution 300–405 [20] 1876 Brooklyn Theatre fire: fire 278+ [21] [g] 2001 American Airlines Flight 587: aircraft 265 [24] 1996 TWA Flight 800: aircraft 230 [25] 1953 1953 New York City smog: pollution 200–260 [20] [26] 1966 1966 New York ...

  3. Timeline of New York City - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Yellow fever - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. Infectious disease experts are concerned about a potential ...

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    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 ...

  6. Valentine Seaman - Wikipedia

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    Valentine Seaman (April 2, 1770 – July 3, 1817) was an American physician who introduced the smallpox vaccine to the United States and mapped yellow fever in New York City. His contributions to public health also include women's education in nursing and midwifery.

  7. Lead Paint Violations In New York City Neighborhoods

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    From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.

  8. Bellevue Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Bellevue traces its origins to the city's first permanent almshouse, a two-story brick building completed in 1736 on the city common, now City Hall Park. [6] [7]In 1798, the city purchased Belle Vue farm, a property near the East River several miles north of the settled city, which had been used to quarantine the sick during a series of yellow fever outbreaks.

  9. File:Valentine Seaman's map of yellow fever epidemic in New ...

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