Has an ordinary cold ever came out of nowhere and infected you, your friends and your family. This is the case for 14 year old Matilda Cook in Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson but this is not an ordinary cold, it is a raging yellow fever outbreak in the United States capitol Philadelphia (the capitol is later moved to its current location Washington D.C.). Matilda’s personality was altered a great amount over the course of the outbreak for example she started to become a more responsible worker and she was treated and respected more like a grown adult.
As the Mayor of Philadelphia, Mayor Matthew Clarkson demonstrated a strong sense of duty throughout the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. He had felt that he should stay in Philadelphia because the people in Philadelphia where his family and if he had left Philadelphia he would have left his family. It was illegal for him to stay he had broken the law so he can stay in Philadelphia. The yellow fever did not treat his family well it had killed his youngest son and his wife had caught it and he still didn’t leave. “... yellow fever had already seized his wife and killed his youngest son, Gerard” (Murphy 24).
No one knew why. After a few months they found out it was called yellow fever because of the mosquitoes that were carrying the disease. The people decided to take action. They found out that they die in cold weather. So they got cold oil or water and sprayed it in all of the grass dry or wet and they did that every day for about a week and eventuly they killed every last one of them.
Cholera was a feared disease that attacked a range of countries from every part of the world. It brought about a sense of horror due to its horrendous symptoms and relatively high mortality rate. This fear was no less apparent for the inhabitants of Philadelphia especially after reports were written about towns such as Montreal and Quebec. One particular report written by the “Commission” (Samuel Jackson, Chas. D. Meigs, and Richard Harlan) and appointed by the “Sanitary Board of the City Councils” had a purpose of providing information about the cholera epidemic in Canada for the inhabitants of Philadelphia.
I have a very large of dying from the sicknesses getting passed around. I overheard General George Washington say that around 3,989 soldiers have gotten sick by February (Busch 147). And that 2,500 deaths have come from sickness (Busch 147). Frostbite and Smallpox have played a big part here at Valley Forge. Frostbite has gotten many people’s limb taken off.
One of the biggest summer nuisance would be the mosquito, but more specifically the Ades aegypti mosquito. The Aedes aegypti is the vector for yellow fever and the cause of the numerous deaths. In her book The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic the Shaped Our History, Molly Caldwell Crosby presents the idea that the mosquito is not just the only reason an epidemic occurred in the 18th century. This story accounts for the disease that broke out across the world and nearly destroyed almost all of North America’s population, which some believe could have been avoided by simple quarantine analysis and sanitary methods.
Wealth bring out the worst in people. I think that because that 's why gold fever exist. Gold fevers when people go crazy for the gold, and wealth. Gold fevers happened a lot during the 1980 's. People would drag there family from North America to northern Canada for gold. Walt was shot at protecting the gold from stampeders.
Smallpox is a highly contagious and fatal disease that had a huge impact on the human population. It is thought to have been originated from India or Egypt at least 3,000 years ago. Smallpox is caused by two variations of the variola virus, variola major and variola minor. Variola major is the most common form of smallpox. It enters the body through the lungs and is carried to the internal organs.
Once an individual acquired the infection, within thirty hours, most would be dead. But, could something like this actually benefit Americans and their society? Most people would say that 675,000 deaths never improves a country, but in America’s
Around the end of World War I, a devastating flu enveloped America, Europe and other parts of Africa and Asia, affecting all age groups, but most deadly for people from ages twenty to forty. The first wave of the pandemic occurred in the spring of 1918
Since it’s discovery, sporadic outbreaks of WNV were observed in the following decades throughout Africa, the Mediterranean basin and The Middle East. As sporadic outbreaks continued to spread throughout Asia, The Middle East, and Eastern Europe questions about how the disease was transmitted began to arise. In areas where outbreaks occurred, it was discovered that large populations of wild birds had been mysteriously dying and horses had been becoming sick. Mosquitos were eventually determined to be the vector that transmitted WNV to birds, horses and humans, and those who lived among migratory bird routes were suspected to be most at risk of contracting WNV. As the years progressed WNV had continued to spread throughout the world, and areas once thought to be safe from WNV were now experiencing outbreaks of the potentially life threatening disease.
Many challenges were faced with the elimination of smallpox in its early years such as political and fund problems, many cases were not being reported, and it was not a top priority for the World Health Organization. Fortunately, after a couple of years, the World Health Organization and
Diseases such as smallpox, measles, pertussis, diphtheria, mumps, and many more would still be a common occurrence in everyday life. For example, during the 20th century, smallpox was limited to Brazil, West-Central Africa, East-Southern Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Indonesia as a result of a minor push in availability and necessitating immunizing vaccines. In 1947, an outbreak of smallpox occurred in New York City. Only a quarter of the city’s population had been vaccinated. In the two weeks following the calamitous outbreak, an immense 6.35 million people were vaccinated and the epidemic was
The last major U.S. Yellow Fever outbreak was in New Orleans in 1905. More than 41,000 people died from the years 1817-1905 in New Orleans. 1905 was
Smallpox outbreaks have occurred from time to time for thousands of years, but the disease is now eradicated after a successful worldwide vaccination program. The last naturally occurring case in the world was in Somalia in 1977. After the disease was eliminated from the world, routine vaccination against smallpox among the general public was stopped because it was no longer necessary for prevention. In 1970, when smallpox was nearly eradicated, a previously unrecognized orthopoxvirus named monkey pox was identified in humans.
