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The 1853 yellow fever epidemic of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean islands resulted in thousands of fatalities. Over 9,000 people died of yellow fever in New Orleans alone, around eight percent of the total population. Many of the dead in New Orleans were recent Irish immigrants living in difficult conditions and without any acquired immunity.
Oct 31, 2018 · The worst year on record in New Orleans was 1853 — 8,000 of the city's residents died. And it wasn't a pretty way to die. Victims would experience a host of unpleasant symptoms: jaundice, chills...
In 1802–1803, an army of forty thousand sent by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte of France to Saint-Domingue to suppress the Haitian Revolution mounted by slaves, was decimated by an epidemic of yellow fever (among the casualties was the expedition's commander and Bonaparte's brother-in-law, Charles Leclerc).
Apr 19, 2022 · Against a backdrop of intensifying slavery, yellow fever transformed New Orleans into a city of the dead, claiming as many as 150,000 lives between 1803 and the outbreak of the Civil War.
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Jun 15, 2017 · Proportion of yellow fever deaths in New Orleans by place of birth, 1 May to 31 October 1853. In general, Irish and German immigrants appeared most likely to die from the disease. The 1853 death rates for both groups were reported to be 20 times higher than that for native New Orleanians.
May 8, 2020 · A lesson from history: How the yellow fever epidemic changed society. Asked how she was fairing during the shelter in place, Stanford University historian Kathryn Olivarius reflected on being a researcher studying early American epidemics during the COVID-19 crisis.
Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1853: Abstractions and Realities. By JO ANN CARRIGAN. AA LMOST EVERY SUMMER FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS YELLOW. fever appeared in New Orleans. Invariably it carried tims and too frequently the disease reached epidemic proportions.
