Essay on The Disease Yellow Fever

The first stage of the black death disease caused people to experience high fevers, weakness, jitters, and cold sweats. Other primary sources were coughing and dry/sore throats. A very obvious sign that indicated that you have been infected by this disease were the black and blue swollen lymph nodes under your arms or near your groin. These were referred to as “buboes”. These dark bubbles were filled with dead blood and pus. Once you started growing buboes like the ones shown on the next page, there was no way to get out of it alive. If left untreated the victim would die from so much of the built up blood being dead and if you

Many people with acute HBV have no symptoms at all, or they could be very insignificant and flu-like. Sometimes the infected person may have a loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, muscle or joint aches, mild fever, and in some cases jaundice (yellowing of the skin). Also, some of the patients may notice dark urine and light colored stools. Because Hepatitis sometimes has no symptoms it can be unknowingly transmitted through exposure to blood or other bodily fluids or through intimate

The scalpel slid across the skin pouring out the blood. Choking down the laxatives and vitamins to rid the toxin from your blood. In 1793, these were the treatments of Dr. Rush, Philadelphia and Dr. Devese, Haiti. In 1793, Yellow Fever struck Philadelphia killing 1­5 people. If you had a splitting headache, felt weak, vomiting dark vile, gums bleeding, and eyes and skin having a yellow tinge, you had Yellow Fever.

In 1793 Philadelphia suffered from a deadly disease that spread all through the town; it was called yellow fever. The Philadelphia Doctors and the French doctors were attempting to treat yellow fever. The doctors had many ways to try to fix this, but they did not have the technology we do today. Yellow fever occurred 1793. The outbreak happened in Philadelphia. This sad event that killed many people was all because of infected mosquitoes. They came over with the ill refuges. About 2,000 to 5,000 people died. All in all, this was one of the one of the worst things to occur in history

In this chapter it talks about how Catherine LeMaigre was dying, and dying horribly and painfully. The two physicians sent for their esteemed colleague Dr. Benjamin Rush. They were trying to find out if they could stop the plague from spreading.

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, as the country grew and trade flourished, periodic epidemics struck regions of the nation as population density increased. Outbreaks of influenza, cholera took over the nation, and in the south, one of the most prevalent was yellow fever. Due to these diseases, a lot of public health policies were either created or changed to better suit the new issues arising. In this essay, I will argue that the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 brought upon many changes in the health realm in terms of public sanitation. In order to prove the epidemic s place in the history of health policies, I will be discussing the creation of the new sewer system, waste disposal techniques, and other projects created.

The reason why it was called the Yellow Fever was because your eyes would turn yellow, thus showing that you had the disease. Not only that, you’d have liver failure and your

Secondly, the cities filth was noteworthy. The city of Memphis was overcome with a rotten smell, excrement of animals, and filth all over the streets. Sanitation conditions were horrible and this had caused previous diseases such as cholera in the years before the Civil War. Thirdly, the weather conditions of the summer of 1878 were ideal for the growth and dispersion of the mosquito that carried the virus. The temperatures during that year's summer were in the range of 82 degrees Fahrenheit. Finally, because Memphis was an important port city for steamboats, the virus traveled easily up north from New Orleans through the Mississippi River. Although, the city of Memphis had previous experiences with yellow fever (1828, 1855, and 186) and other diseases too, the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 was like nothing else previously seen in the history of Tennessee. It was in 1900 that it was discovered that the virus had come to Memphis from and infected ship that had ported in either the Caribbean or West Africa and had later entered the United States to New Orleans and then to Memphis.

224 years ago, in 1793, a yellow fever epidemic roared over Philadelphia. This was a devastating time for all Philadelphians. Although there were no cures, there were treatments. There were two types of doctors back in this time; the French doctors and the American. Mosquitos are the cause of this. They (the mosquitos) got infected by the refuges. The mosquitos spread the yellow fever to mankind. This epidemic killed a couple thousand people.

What is West Nile Fever? West Nile fever also known as West Nile virus is a mosquito borne disease transferred from mosquito to person. Encephalitis is a disease that West nile virus can cause. What encephalitis does is it causes inflammation of the brain which in some cases can be fatal. The west Nile virus wasn’t discovered until 1937 in Africa. The disease didn’t make its way into the United States until 1999. The Virus is most common during the summer months (July- September) which is when mosquitos the carrier of the disease are most active. But in some states it is at risk all year round. Most people who are bitten and infected even receive the virus.

The pulse rate and respiration rate are increased, and the victim becomes exhausted and apathetic. The buboes swell until they approximate a chicken egg in size. In nonfatal cases, the temperature begins to fall in about five days, and approaches normal in about two weeks. In fatal cases, death results in about four days. In primary pneumonic plague, the sputum is at first slimy and tinted with blood; it later becomes free-flowing and bright red. Death occurs in most cases two or three days after the first appearance of symptoms. In primary septicemic plague, the victim has a sudden onset of high fever and turns deep purple in several hours, often dying within the same day that symptoms first develop. The purple color, which appears in all plague victims during their last hours, is due to respiratory failure; the popular name Black Death that is applied to the disease is derived from this symptom.

Yellow Fever is a dangerous viral infection. Yellow fever gets its name from the fact that the disease typically causes the skin to become yellow as well as producing a fever. Brian R. Shmaefsky, author of the book Yellow Fever explains that "Yellow fever is also known by other names. Throughout history yellow fever was called black vomit, vomito negro, sylvatic fever, and Yellow Jack. Black vomit, or vomito negro, is known as very dark vomit that many infected people produce. Sylvatic fever gets his name from the fact that the disease is common in areas with jungles or forests. The name Yellow Jack was given by the newspapers because yellow fever was perceived to be as destructive as any enemy troop". In cartoons the disease was pictured as a skeleton wearing a yellow military jacket. The Virus is transmitted by mosquitoes in tropical regions, so it cannot be spread person to person by direct contact. The disease is principally spread in tropical regions of Africa and America. Every year it is recorded 200,000 cases of Yellow Fever, and 30,000 of that die. However, because of the poor record-keeping, the data recorded do not reflect the reality. Moreover, in the last years, epidemics are increasing the number of people affected by Yellow Fever. Even though there are ways to prevent it, it is dangerous because it can cause death and also it has many symptoms.

People can also be infected by this destructive disease. Their symptoms are things like a fever, headache, and loss of appetite. These people also have a terrible itching and burning at the

There are two different conditions of Yellow Fever, mild and severe. Mild cases’ symptoms include fever, headache, nausea, back pain, body aches, vomiting, and weakness in the arms, legs, and muscles. More severe cases’ symptoms consist of vomiting blood, bleeding from nose, mouth, and ears, slow heart rate, liver failure, kidney failure, seizures, and comas. A person with Yellow Fever can easily be diagnosed by doctors by the color of their skin. A person with Yellow Fever shows skin that is starting to turn yellow from

The symptoms of yellow fever are varied. The virus has an incubation period of three to six days. The first symptoms will be fever, muscle pain, backache, headache, shivers, and loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting. Frequently a slow pulse accompanies the fever. Most people improve after three to four days, however in 15% of the cases; patients go into a toxic phase within 24 hours. Fever reappears, and they exhibit jaundice and abdominal pain with vomiting. Bleeding occurs from the mouth, eyes, nose and stomach. The kidneys fail to produce urine, and blood appears in the vomit and feces. Half of the patients who experience this toxic phase die in ten to fourteen days. Due to the fact that many of these symptoms are identical to malaria and other diseases native to the areas, yellow fever is difficult to recognize. Blood tests can identify the virus, but may not be easily available to people in poorer developing countries.