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- Yellow Fever originally hit the United States in 1668-69 in the New York-Philadelphia area. It didn't make its way south until 1828, when it first appeared in New Orleans. Within days, it moved up-river and found the perfect breeding ground - swampy and filthy Memphis. During it's first epidemic in 1828, there were 650 cases and 150 deaths.
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Memphis had been exposed to Yellow Fever in 1828, 1855, and 1867 and each time it was brought north by steamer from New Orleans. In 1867 it was quite severe although it was confined to the section of the city where it had developed.
Oct 8, 2017 · Although Memphis had been exposed to yellow fever in 1828, 1855, and 1867, nothing prepared the city for the devastation the fever brought during the 1870s. An 1873 epidemic claimed 2,000 in Memphis, a number which constituted at the time the most yellow fever victims in an inland city.
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In 1878, Memphis, Tennessee, faced one of its worst public health disasters: a massive Yellow Fever epidemic. This wasn't the first time Yellow Fever hit Memphis. The city had seen outbreaks before in 1828, 1855, and 1867, usually brought by steamboats from New Orleans.
May 15, 2020 · The first death officially attributed to yellow fever in Memphis during the epidemic of 1878 occurred on August 13. The victim, an Italian immigrant named Kate Bionda, owned a snack house in the Pinch District.
Aug 28, 2016 · The first recorded epidemic of yellow fever was in the Yucatan Peninsula in 1648, probably part of a larger epidemic involving a number of Caribbean Islands. Between 1668 and 1699, outbreaks...
According to TN Encyclopedia, the 1873 Yellow Epidemic claimed 2,000 Memphians, garnering national attention, but conditions in 1878 allowed for a massive explosion in the population of fever-bearing mosquitos.
Nov 13, 2009 · On August 13, 1878, Kate Bionda, a restaurant owner, dies of yellow fever in Memphis, Tennessee, after a man who had escaped a quarantined steamboat visited her restaurant. The disease spread...
