Yellow Fever Extra Credit Virus Classification: Group: Group IV Family: Flaviviridae Genus: Flavivirus What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words ‘yellow fever’? People who alters to the color yellow? An incurable disease that can cause self-destruction? Yes and no. The keyword here is ‘mosquitoes’. That’s right, tiny mosquitoes that carry a virus around to their victims. Yellow fever is only found in parts of South America and Africa with two different sequences…
AMERICAN PLAGUE Basic statistics about the number of countries and states stricken with yellow fever, as well as the number of people affected, were taken Conclusions of the Board of Experts authorized by congress to investigate the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. The reports also estimate the cost of the 1878 epidemic as $ 200 million, which today would be calculated as over $ 350 million. The quote about yellow fever striking the Atlantic and Gulf states with more force than the one that bombed Pearl…
you know that the yellow fever is estimated to infect 200,000 people a year causing 30,000 deaths. 90% of these deaths are in Africa. In Fever 1793, there is an outbreak of the yellow fever in the newly born country now called the United States of America. The main character, Matilda is very childish and lazy when it comes to work around the house. When her mother is diagnosed with the fever, her whole life and future is filled with fear. After she personally experiences the fever and survives, she…
Yellow Fever Attacks Philadelphia 1793 The summer of 1793 was unusually hot and dry. Insects infested every corner in the streets, and Philadelphia was the busiest port in the U.S. Workers paced back and forth, carrying goods in and shipping goods out. In the midst of July, a ship of Caribbean refugees came to port. With them, they carried the yellow fever virus. The virus traveled slowly at first; with just a few fatalities in the first week, numbers grew steadily over time. No one suspected…
Yellow fever; a gruesome, painful disease that spread like a bad rumor. Yellow fever originated in Philadelphia in 1793. The reason for this disease is because foreign ships brought fruit from around the world which drew mosquitoes to nest in the pool of water where the fruit was put for the long journey to Philadelphia. Once you were bitten by an infected mosquito, you were automatically infected with the disease. Once the same mosquito bites another person, they were also infected with the disease…
Title: Yellow Fever Organizational Pattern: Chronological General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: Teach the audience general facts about yellow fever throughout the years Introduction: When most of you hear Yellow Fever, you probably think of a type of cold or flu, however what you may not consider is that it can be a very serious illness which can even lead to death. Transition: Let’s start with the basics… I. The Basics http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002341/ A. What…
summer came to an end the Yellow Fever would plague the city due to a filthy environment, lack of effective treatments, and misinformation. As August began, the citizens of Philadelphia became violently ill with multiple symptoms including: chills, high fevers, nausea, vomiting, delusions, and extreme pain. However, there were a couple of symptoms that were unusual, such as, black vomit and a yellow coloring of the body. The yellow coloring of a body is due, “yellow fever severely damaging the liver…
Comparing yellow fever and scarlet fever |Yellow Fever (viral infection) |Scarlet fever (streptococcal infection) | |Causative factors: |Causative factors: | |Yellow fever virus (flavivirus group) |Streptococcus bacteria | |…
The yellow fever is a murder to Philadelphia. It killed thousands people in philadelphia. That why I volunteered to come to Philadelphia and put my physician training to use. I am going to write a composition of how the philadelphia way of curing the yellow fever and the french way of curing the yellow fever by the order of King George the Third I need to do this. There is to treatments that can cure the yellow fever. The similar thing is that the French doctors and the Philadelphia doctors know…
What do you now know and understand about the historical events from your novel? A complex question because as well as the facts and the hard truths of the Yellow Fever epidemic, I also have learned to understand how to feel empathy and happiness for the people that had to go through the awful calamity of 1793. I have a deep respect for the people that were volunteers of the Free African Society because they were the real hero's of the story. They were the people that did not flee when crisis arose…