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The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793. Yellow fever is known for bringing on a characteristic yellow tinge to the eyes and skin, and for the terrible “black vomit” caused by bleeding into the stomach. Known today to be spread by infected mosquitoes, yellow fever was long believed to be a miasmatic disease originating in rotting ...
William Hamilton, the owner of Bush Hill, received $2,000 for the use of his property during the 1793 epidemic and as rent for the ensuing 1.5 years in the event that Philadelphia should experience a similar need during that period. The estate was used as a yellow fever hospital again in 1797.
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In the summer of 1693, a strange disease spread through Boston. Victims suffered from jaundice, high fever and black vomit. For more than two hundred years, yellow fever — as the disease...
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Mar 27, 2023 · Some 500 years ago, a city-living, human-biting form of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti began to hitch rides out of West African ports during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It spread to the Americas and then to Asia, causing centuries of disease outbreaks to ripple through the colonial world. Today, its globally invasive descendants act ...
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Apr 13, 2023 · This was the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, which overwhelmed the city’s residents, Quakers and non-Quakers alike, from August to November. People died, families fled, businesses closed, but volunteers, including Quaker and Blacks, helped the afflicted in basic ways. Symptoms of the spreading disease included high fevers ...
Jul 19, 2023 · The yellow fever epidemic that struck Norfolk and Portsmouth in the summer and autumn of 1855 was one of the worst in U.S. history. An estimated 3,000 people died in Norfolk, about one-third of the entire population, while more than 1,000 died in Portsmouth. Norfolk and Portsmouth recovered slowly.
