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1 day ago · 1820 Savannah yellow fever epidemic 1820 Savannah, Georgia, United States Yellow fever: 700 1821 Barcelona yellow fever epidemic 1821 Barcelona, Spain Yellow fever: 5,000–20,000 Second cholera pandemic: 1826–1837 Asia, Europe, North America Cholera: 100,000+ 1828–1829 New South Wales smallpox epidemic 1828–1829
1 day ago · Thus in Chapter 6, when writing about yellow fever and malaria, I discuss the understandings of those diseases set forth by medical scientists at the Cairo Conference on Tropical Medicine held in 1928. Nineteen-twenty-eight is some 69 years before Epidemics and History went to press (i.e. hardly "the present"). Similarly, in Chapter 2, Leprosy ...
4 days ago · Medical anthropology, from its studies of folk medicine, magic and religion, to its focus on systems of medical knowledge and care, biomedicine, and alternative medical systems in world cultures, is strongly represented in the Anthropological Literature e
- Helen Quiqley
- 2015
1 day ago · The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and ...
- February 1918 – April 1920
- Worldwide
- 25–50 million (generally accepted), other estimates range from 17 to 100 million
- Influenza
Mar 20, 2020 · 1. Yellow Fever. The quarantine station on Staten Island. Image from New York Public Library. In August 1793, a yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia, killing around 5,000 residents out...
3 days ago · Yellow fever virus (YFV) is the prototype member of the genus Flavivirus and family Flaviviridae. It is an arbovirus transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes in Africa and Americas, causing a disease with a large spectrum of symptoms, from mild disease to severe and deadly haemorrhagic fever in humans and New World non-human primates (NHP) (Vasconcelos & Monath 2016).
4 days ago · The Free African Society and Yellow Fever epidemic of the 1790s are also considered.” Read the paper on JStor. The article is free to many University users; $19 to purchase for individual researchers. You might also be able to talk the author into providing a complementary copy for a good cause. Visit Jubilee Marshall’s website.
