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 ...

In the late summer of 1878, a killing machine marched up the Mississippi River from New Orleans headed straight for Memphis, Tennessee. The deadliest strain of yellow fever to ever hit the U.S ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 2 ... The number of new cases to-day is 14 and the death-list 6, from yellow fever. One of the yellow fever dead is from outside the city limits. Of the new cases, two ...

"One New Orleans doctor performing an autopsy that summer described it as bright canary yellow," according to Crosby. There had been yellow fever epidemics in Memphis before, but never anything ...

Newspapers told of outbreaks in Florida, Alabama, and Texas. When a yellow fever epidemic struck Memphis in the summer of 1878, Arkansans were terrified. Five years earlier, in the summer of 1873 ...

left comfortable homes and pleasant associations to do battle with the yellow fever, and tend its victims in Shreveport and Memphis. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The book focues on the summer of 1878, when more than half the population of Memphis, Tennesse, fled the raging yellow fever ... Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and ...

Among these tales is the remarkable journey of Emily Sutton, a woman who, during the Yellow Fever epidemic of the 1870s, remained in Memphis to run her brothel business while others fled.

London - Urgent action is needed to combat a yellow fever epidemic in Africa amid signs ... such as in New Orleans in 1905, Memphis, Tennessee, in 1878 and Philadelphia in 1793.

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 ...

In 1878, an outbreak of yellow fever crippled Memphis, Tenn., fueled by unusually warm temperatures. America's yellow fever epidemic has again... Lessons from America's Tropical Epidemic Some ...