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History of Yellow Fever in the U. S. - ASM. org Yellow fever is caused by a virus in the family Flaviviridae, and it is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito The yellow fever virus most likely originated in Africa and arrived in the Western Hemisphere in the 1600s as a result of slave trade
Major Walter Reed and the Eradication of Yellow Fever With Walter Reed’s experiments and Gorgas’s practical application of the Reed commission’s findings, the Army was able to curb and eventually eradicate yellow fever, paving the way for future operations in environments where yellow fever is prevalent
Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever . . . From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated U S port cities in a series of terrifying epidemics The search for the cause and prevention of the disease involved many prominent American intellectuals, including Noah Webster and Benjamin Rush
John Jay and the Yellow Fever Epidemics [Editorial Note] While the disease appeared to be confined, rumors of an epidemic were not, and on 8 August, the chairman of the city’s Health Committee, John Broome, was forced to act He issued a statement that all measures were being taken to confine the fever: quarantine and cleaning up of “nuisances ”
The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793 Devèze refused to believe that yellow fever was contagious and he disapproved of Rush’s aggressive treatments Devèze later became a world authority on yellow fever
1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic - Wikipedia During the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the register of deaths between August 1st and November 9th The vast majority of them died of yellow fever, making the epidemic in the city of 50,000 people one of the most severe in United States history
The Yellow Fever Epidemic - Historical Society of Pennsylvania In 1793, Philadelphia was struck with the worst outbreak of Yellow Fever ever recorded in North America The fever took a devastating toll on the city as nearly 5,000 individuals died, among them close to 400 African Americans