yellow fever new come buckra, he get sick, he tak fever, he be die, he be die, & etc. in 1799,...
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Yellow Yellow FeverFever
New come buckra,
He get sick,
He tak fever,He be die,
He be die, & etc.
In 1799, the traveler Robert Renny recalled being greeted on the shore of Jamaica by a canoe full of slave women sarcastically chanting.
VictiVictimsms
New York City in 1878
Victims of the fever awaiting burial at Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis in 1878
Plague-stricken—waiting for the frost in 1878
TreatTreatmentment Dehydra
tion and fever
Oral rehydration salts and
paracetamol
Bacterial
infection
antibioti
c
Serious ill patients
Intensive care
VaccinVaccinationation
A single dose of vaccine provides
protection for 10 years and probably for life.
ReferenceReferencess
The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins and Anne Coxe ToogoodViruses, plagues, and history by Michael B. A. OldstoneYellow Fever & public health in the new south by John H. EllisEpidemics and history: disease, power and imperialism by Sheldon Wattshttp://www.who.int/csr/disease/yellowfev/en/
A Special Gratitude to Dr. Scarcella Presented By: Kwang-Sug Lee