this epidemic spread up the Mississippi Valley to Memphis. More than half of the 47,000 residents of Memphis fled the city; more than 5,000 died that summer of yellow fever. 8. Cuba; Summer 1898 ...

It was 1795, and the yellow fever—which had burned through Philadelphia ... before cold weather killed the mosquitoes and put an end to the year’s epidemic. Commended for his work at Bellevue ...

A new study in npj Viruses warns that global trends like urbanization, travel, and mosquito spread are amplifying the risk of ...

as the yellow fever epidemic of 1897 swept northward from New Orleans. "During the yellow fever outbreaks, everybody feared the mail," says Nancy Pope, a historian at the National Postal Museum ...