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Hace 4 días · Although yellow fever continued to appear annually following this second epidemic sized outbreak, the final large yellow fever outbreak in New York City occurred in 1803. Following this...
Hace 5 días · Background: Yellow fever (YF) is a zoonotic disease transmitted by mosquitoes among humans and nonhuman primates. Although urban YF is eradicated, the sylvatic YF has reemerged in some areas of Brazil in the twenty-first century. From 2016 to 2019, a sylvatic YF epidemic occurred in Southeast Brazil, where it had been eradicated in the 1940s.
Hace 4 días · 1878 New Orleans yellow fever epidemic: 1878 New Orleans, United States Yellow fever: 4,046 1878 Mississippi Valley yellow fever epidemic: 1878 Mississippi Valley, United States Yellow fever: 13,000 Fifth cholera pandemic: 1881–1896 Asia, Africa, Europe, South America Cholera: 298,600 1885 Montreal smallpox epidemic 1885 Montreal, Canada
Hace 5 días · By 1870 Memphis was a city of some 40,000 souls, second only to New Orleans in the entire South. In 1878 over five-thousand Memphians died of yellow fever; half the surviving population fled the city during that time. With over fifteen-million dollars in losses, the city went bankrupt, and the Tennessee General Assembly revoked its charter.
Hace 5 días · Born about an hour southeast in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862, she’d lost her parents and young brother to the devastating 1878 yellow fever epidemic. Her parents were involved with Reconstruction-era politics and the democratization of education; their daughter would carry on that mantle as a radical teacher in her own right.
Hace 2 días · A number of epidemics swept through Tennessee in the years after the Civil War, including cholera in 1873, which devastated the Nashville area, and yellow fever in 1878, which killed more than one-tenth of Memphis's residents. Reformers worked to modernize Tennessee into a "New South" economy during this time.
Hace 5 días · This 1861 photograph of contrabands aboard the USS Vermont by Henry P. Moore is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Contrabands Aboard U.S. Ship Vermont, Port Royal, South ...
