The Spread Of Yellow Fever In America

The American Plague was written by Molly C. Crosby, who is as much as a researcher as she is an author. In 1648, a slave ship returning from Africa carried a few mosquitoes infected with a deadly virus know as yellow fever. The ship landed in the New World and thrived in the hot wet climate and on the white settlers. The New World has never come in contact with yellow fever and as a result no immunities have been built up. The virus obtained its name from the way it turns the victim’s skin and eyes a golden yellow. Victims also suffer from very high fevers, external and internal bleeding, and blackish vomit. In America yellow fever killed thousands of peoples, halted trade, and disrupted the government. Although many

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.

Yellow fever is a deadly disease caused by a viral infection that is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. Although it is found to be most common in males in their early 20's, yellow fever can affect any sex, race, or age. Since yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes, it is most often found in areas such as Central America, the northern half of South America, and Central Africa where mosquitoes are abundant. The reason why it is found so often in these

Laurie Halse Anderson Fever 1793, many people in Philadelphia were facing a disease called “Yellow Fever” the patients were to get help immediately or they would soon die. During the rough times, most people of the city fled to a safer place where the fever did not eat off others. These times were rough for the people and most couldn’t afford to flee the city or it was too late to consider it. The people were to wait till winter which is when the fever left and the city was safe again.

A great misfortune took place during the summer of 1793. It was one of the driest and hottest summers in years making way for many disease spreading pests like mosquitoes (Gum 1). Said bugs and rodents took the lives of thousands leaving Colonial America in terrible condition. The College of Physicians not only established organization during this time of chaos, but they also limited future epidemics like the events that took place in Philadelphia and Colonial America from occurring again. To expand upon, the college created eleven rules for people to follow in order to prevent Yellow Fever from dispersing any further (Dobson 2). These rules included avoiding “all unnecessary intercourse” with those who have contracted the disease; housing all of the diseased in a large open room, removing “offensive matters from the diseased’s room” (2), frequently cleaning the selected room, and bathing the infected as quickly as possible; having a medical center for each city so the poor can also be assisted with regards to Yellow Fever; putting a stop to the ringing of the church bells; burying the dead fever victims in a private manner;

France was at war with many countries. John Adams later would write 10,000 citizens marched in Philadelphia, threatening to drag Washington and make him declare war. Adams thought that the yellow fever prevented chaos. At the start, people believed that the two-thousand five-hundred city’s African-Americans were immune to the fever. Philadelphians initially blamed the outbreak on refugees from France. People believe the disease spread person to person. Recommendation for ridding of the disease were smoking tobacco, cleaning yourself with vinegar, carrying a tarred rope, covering the floors of rooms with a two-inch-deep layer of dirt, chewing garlic, hanging a bag of camphor around your neck, lighting bonfires, and setting off guns in the

Yellow fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever, was one of the deadliest diseases to hit North America. It is transmitted by female mosquitoes of the Aedes aegypti species. When a person is infected with the disease, the symptoms of high fever, nausea, vomiting, yellowing of the skin (also known as jaundice) and muscle aches occur. The cause of Yellow Fever was not known to colonial doctors. It would not be known until 1900. Until then, eighteenth century doctors used the only knowledge they had to fight the

Yellow Fever was like a massive fire burning through Philadelphia killing thousands and thousands of people! It was also like a lightning bolt which struck the earth as hard as a runaway train. If you did not know, Yellow Fever is a horrific disease which comes from certain diseased, or infected mosquitoes. The Philadelphian and French doctors had to come up with a solution, or clarification. They both came up with a cure that they thought would be able to help people with the illness. This certain event happened in the summer of 1793 in Philadelphia. The mosquitoes came from some ships that sailed over seas into Philadelphia ports . There was between 2000-5000 people dead. It almost feels like 10,000 were dead! Yellow Fever still exist

1793: the yellow fever has taken over Philadelphia like butterflies migrating. I am a first year physician to volunteer to help fever victims. I, the physician, am doing this so I can report back to to King George the III. There were over a 1,000 people that died of yellow fever in Philadelphia. That is most of the population in Philadelphia. So I am going to study these two methods (the two methods are the American method and the French method.)

The virus “ yellow fever “ was spread by mosquitoes in the late 1690s. In the late summer of 1793 the yellow fever epidemic fled philadelphia. Between august 1 - november 9 around 5,000 plus people died because of the yellow fever. 10% of the population died. During the yellow fever the weather was dramatically hot and dry. 20,000 people left the city to get away from the fever because of that the population kept going down. People believed that african-americans were the ones who had the fever first so once they came to philadelphia they caused others around them to get the fever as well. Doctors tried to find a bunch of treatments but non worked. In 1793 philadelphia was the capital of

The summer of 1793 was unusually dry and hot in Philadelphia. The city founded by William Penn the largest in the nation, with some 50,000 residents. The virus is carried and transferred by mosquitoes. The first yellow fever outbreaks in the United States occurred in late 1690s. Nearly 100 years later in the late summer of 1793, refugees from a yellow fever epidemic in the Caribbean fled to Philadelphia. Yellow fever can lead to serious illness and even death. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead. Yellow fever, or American plague as it was known at the time, is a viral disease that begins with fever and muscle pain.The virus is like malaria,its carried and transferred

Many studies have come to the conclusion that yellow fever is “A tropical disease affecting the liver and kidneys, causing fever and jaundice and is often fatal.”According to “The deadly fever: Documentary on America’s yellow fever disaster” the disease brings upon a variety of symptoms such as: headaches, high fever, back pains, and just hurting all over along with being sore. This would usually last about 48 to 72 hours, afterwards yellow fever attacks the liver and kidneys, once the liver is destroyed many proteins that your body needs are also destroyed, causing jaundice (yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes) hence where the name yellow fever comes from.

The Yellow Fever virus came from Central or East Africa. With transmission between primates and humans, the virus has been spread from there to West Africa. The virus was probably brought to the Americas with the slave trade ships from 1492 after the first European exploration. The first case of Yellow fever was recorded in Mexico by Spanish colonists in 1648. Consequently, the virus started to spread also in North America. In Philadelphia in 1793, more than the 9% of the population die. The American government had to escape from the city that was the temporary capital. One of the most famous outbreaks happen in Europe in Barcelona in 1821.How explains the article "The 'plague' of Barcelona. Yellow Fever epidemic of 1821", the outbreak of

Symptoms that are usually associated with yellow fever include fever, poor appetite, nausea, chills, muscle pains in the back and headaches abdominal back pain. These symptoms usually subside after five days. These symptoms sometimes reoccur. Abdominal pain and liver damage starts causing yellow skin. There also is a higher chance of kidney problems. About 15-15% then proceed to the ‘toxic’ stage of which around 50% then die around 14 days after catching yellow fever.

Dengue fever is considered to be a viral illness in 1906. Its first signs were cited in Chinese Encyclopedia in Chin Dynasty (AD 265-420). Because of its association with airborne arthropods close to water, it was called as the water poison (Khanani, Arif, & Shaikh, 2011). The word dengue is derived from Swahili saying Ka-Dinga Pepo meaning cramp like seizures. Its first documented outbreak occurred concurrently in Asia, Africa and North America in 1780s and the first clinical case was reported by Gupta et al., in 1789 who named it bone breaking fever due to the clinical signs of arthralgia and myalgia(Gupta, Srivastava, Jain, & Chaturvedi, 2012).