The Yellow Fever Outbreak Of 1793

Then in 1348 began the first outbreak of this horrid disease in England, but it didn't end there. The outbreaks continued on and spread to Scotland in the summer of 1349, Scandinavia in 1350, and finally Kiev, Russia in 1351.

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The American Plague was written by Molly C. Crosby, who is as much as a researcher as she is an author. In 1648, a slave ship returning from Africa carried a few mosquitoes infected with a deadly virus know as yellow fever. The ship landed in the New World and thrived in the hot wet climate and on the white settlers. The New World has never come in contact with yellow fever and as a result no immunities have been built up. The virus obtained its name from the way it turns the victim’s skin and eyes a golden yellow. Victims also suffer from very high fevers, external and internal bleeding, and blackish vomit. In America yellow fever killed thousands of peoples, halted trade, and disrupted the government. Although many

Diseases have always been a threat to humans, all throughout history. One of the most destructive disease outbreaks in history was the plague outbreak which peaked in 1346 to 1353, in Europe, commonly known as the Black Death. This plague outbreak was extremely deadly and killed 30-60% of the European population at the time of the outbreak. The outbreak is commonly believed to have been caused by the bubonic plague, but modern evidence suggests that the Black Death was caused by pneumonic plague, a much more contagious and deadly infection.

The reason why it was called the Yellow Fever was because your eyes would turn yellow, thus showing that you had the disease. Not only that, you’d have liver failure and your

Secondly, the cities filth was noteworthy. The city of Memphis was overcome with a rotten smell, excrement of animals, and filth all over the streets. Sanitation conditions were horrible and this had caused previous diseases such as cholera in the years before the Civil War. Thirdly, the weather conditions of the summer of 1878 were ideal for the growth and dispersion of the mosquito that carried the virus. The temperatures during that year's summer were in the range of 82 degrees Fahrenheit. Finally, because Memphis was an important port city for steamboats, the virus traveled easily up north from New Orleans through the Mississippi River. Although, the city of Memphis had previous experiences with yellow fever (1828, 1855, and 186) and other diseases too, the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 was like nothing else previously seen in the history of Tennessee. It was in 1900 that it was discovered that the virus had come to Memphis from and infected ship that had ported in either the Caribbean or West Africa and had later entered the United States to New Orleans and then to Memphis.

Yellow fever is a deadly disease caused by a viral infection that is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. Although it is found to be most common in males in their early 20's, yellow fever can affect any sex, race, or age. Since yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes, it is most often found in areas such as Central America, the northern half of South America, and Central Africa where mosquitoes are abundant. The reason why it is found so often in these

To start off with the doctors, the doctors where one of the reasons why people died well at least the British doctors because they would first examine you tell you how you where and how they would open your arm and start taking away your blood the amount was 10-15 ounces per day, that was bad because losing too much blood like that s like of you shot yourself four times with a gun. Another person we can thank for letting fever victims die is family, friends, neighbors would kicked you out onto the streets if you had yellow fever and if you were on the streets that's sad because you would die soon enough no recourse and no cures for you. One major thing that killed people with yellow fever was the weather if it was cold you would freeze to death because a virus is super effective against cold and heat would make fever victims faint old just feel dizzy and make them do lots of things. A thing that most people didn't lie to do in those times or did not find important was taking baths and that's why people get easily sick not just from yellow fever however also from other diseases or viruses because washing your body washes away and germs that you had on you and that would also prevent you from getting sick in the first

This disease was very deadly and killed many due to the fact that many people did not know they had Yellow Fever. If one did show symptoms of the disease it usually happened 3-4 days after contraction making it too late for anything to be done to help with the symptoms. The most common symptoms would be fever, headache, jaundice, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. Since there was no cure for this disease this contracting it would ultimately lead to death. Once contracted the disease incubates in the body for 3-6 days causing sever pain and suffering before death.

224 years ago, in 1793, a yellow fever epidemic roared over Philadelphia. This was a devastating time for all Philadelphians. Although there were no cures, there were treatments. There were two types of doctors back in this time; the French doctors and the American. Mosquitos are the cause of this. They (the mosquitos) got infected by the refuges. The mosquitos spread the yellow fever to mankind. This epidemic killed a couple thousand people.

In August the Yellow Fever hit Philadelphia, as of then over 5,000 people have died. By the end of September 20,000 of the 50,000 population in Philadelphia had fled to the country. Doctors are butting heads over a treatment, some are saying, like Dr. Benjamin Rush,to bleed the infected to drain the illness from the patient’s body through their blood. But this did nothing to help and we’re back to square one and people are still dying. French doctors, like Dr. Jean Deveze, prescribe rest, fresh air, and lots of fluids and this seems to be the best treatment. What are the symptoms of “yellow fever”? People may experience pain in the abdomen or muscles, chills, fatigue, fever, or loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting. Also common are internal bleeding, delirium, headache, or yellow skin and eyes. But if more than 5,000 people have died where were they buried? People were dying everyday and they had to go somewhere. Some were buried in churchyards and cemeteries throughout Philadelphia others were buried in fields outside the city. The epidemic has calmed down and Philadelphia is

One of the most deadliest outbreaks that ever took place in Philadelphia, PA was the Yellow Fever. This outbreak took place in 1793 and was caused by infected refuges that traveled to Philadelphia. The refuges were infected from being bitten by mosquitoes that carried the disease. After it was all said and done, 2,000-5,000 people died from this tragic event. Since there was no real cure for Yellow Fever, there were a couple different types of treatments that the Philadelphia and French doctors attempted to perform.

During the Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1793 in Philadelphia, 5,000 people were dead in August 1 and November 9. A Lot of people from philadelphia died of yellow fever, making the epidemic in the city of United States history. By the end of September, 20,000 people left the city. The deaths were in October, when the coldness killed the mosquitoes and brought an end to the epidemic in November. Doctors tried different treatments, but knew neither the start of the fever and still didn't know it was by mosquitoes which was until the late 19th century.

The Yellow Fever virus came from Central or East Africa. With transmission between primates and humans, the virus has been spread from there to West Africa. The virus was probably brought to the Americas with the slave trade ships from 1492 after the first European exploration. The first case of Yellow fever was recorded in Mexico by Spanish colonists in 1648. Consequently, the virus started to spread also in North America. In Philadelphia in 1793, more than the 9% of the population die. The American government had to escape from the city that was the temporary capital. One of the most famous outbreaks happen in Europe in Barcelona in 1821.How explains the article "The 'plague' of Barcelona. Yellow Fever epidemic of 1821", the outbreak of

Most people don’t know that 10% of people that get Yellow Fever die from it. However some viruses are more harmful than others which may scare some people. The many symptoms of Yellow Fever may make this viral infection seem frightening even though there is a treatment available, the history is quite unique, but how it is spread may surprise people.