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Apr 4, 2012 · Fever: 1793 (1790-1820): Directed by Nick Briscoe. With William Bryant Jr., Leonard Dozier, Barbara Edwards, JaQuinley Kerr. Documents the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, a disease that ravaged Philadelphia and led to the death of over 5,000 citizens.
- Nick Briscoe
- 2012-04-04
- History
The first major American yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia in July 1793 and peaked during the first weeks of October. Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital, was the most cosmopolitan city in the United States.
May 28, 2020 · Between 1793 and 1805, waves of yellow fever attacked northern ports in the U.S. Then the disease retreated south, where it persisted through the end of the 19th century. At the turn of the 20th century, a time of great advances in bacteriology, scientists discovered that yellow fever was transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito.
Apr 3, 2012 · Yellow Fever Couldn’t Keep Philadelphia Down. Watch the story of our stubborn roots in Fever 1793, airing on 6 ABC at 7:30 p.m. on April 4th. By Sam Katz · 4/3/2012, 11:29 a.m. Get a...
Apr 4, 2012 · Fever: 1793: With JaQuinley Kerr, Leonard Dozier, William Bryant Jr., Barbara Edwards. The show is about Matilda who lives in a coffee shop with her mom and her father is dead. She was living a good life until one mosquito turns everything upside down.
During the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the register of deaths between August 1 and November 9. 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.
