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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, [1] around eight percent of the total population. [2] Many of the dead in New Orleans were recent Irish immigrants living in difficult conditions and without any acquired ...
- 10,000+ (United States)
- Gulf Coast, Caribbean
Oct 31, 2018 · The worst year on record in New Orleans was 1853 — 8,000 of the city's residents died. ... "If black people are naturally resistant to yellow fever, black slavery is natural, even humanitarian ...
The yellow fever epidemic of 1793 struck during the summer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the highest fatalities in the United States were recorded. The disease probably was brought by refugees and mosquitoes on ships from Saint-Domingue. It rapidly spread in the port city, in the crowded blocks along the Delaware River.
Apr 19, 2022 · What is yellow fever, and how is it different from Covid-19? ... In 1853, the year of the worst epidemic in New Orleans, with over 12,000 deaths, about 10 percent of the city’s population died ...
- Karin Wulf
Jun 15, 2017 · N ew Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever. On 27 May that year, the 26-year-old admitted himself to the Charity Hospital in New Orleans, saying he had felt ill for four days. Within hours he became delirious and, early next morning, he threw up black vomit, a symptom familiar to anyone who had ...
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. "I write about yellow fever by day and worry about COVID-19 at night," she said.
A full-blown yellow fever epidemic had not struck New Orleans since 1847. In that year over 2,000 persons had fallen victim to the pestilence.3 For the next five years yellow fever paid its an-nual visit but carried off as tribute only a few hundred each sum-mer, and the annual loss of at least several hundred citizens
