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4 days ago · Yellow fever is a viral infection spread by infected Aedes aegypty and Haemagogus mosquitoes. The main cause of yellow fever is flavivirus or yellow fever virus and it is particularly common in sub-Saharan Africa and South America.
4 days ago · Around 730 people died of yellow fever that first summer. This disease, which causes symptoms of fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting and fatigue, would plague New York City for...
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George Francis Train (March 24, 1829 – January 18, 1904) was an American entrepreneur who organized the clipper ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco; he also organized the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier in the United States in 1864 to construct the eastern portion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and a horse tramway company in England while there during ...
- Around-the-world traveling; political activism
- March 24, 1829, Boston
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- Adeline Train Whitney (cousin)
3 days ago · Yellow fever virus (YFV) is the prototype member of the genus Flavivirus and family Flaviviridae.
5 days ago · The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror, the Yellow Menace and the Yellow Specter) is a racist color metaphor that depicts the peoples of East and Southeast Asia as an existential danger to the Western world.
23 hours ago · 1855 Norfolk yellow fever epidemic 1855 Norfolk and Portsmouth, England Yellow fever: 3,000 (2,000 in Norfolk, 1,000 in Portsmouth) Third plague pandemic: 1855–1960 Worldwide Bubonic plague: 12–15 million (India and China) 1855–1857 Montevideo yellow fever epidemic 1855–1857 Montevideo, Uruguay: Yellow fever
4 days ago · 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 of...
