Yellow fever epidemic

An example of the kind of thinking of 18th century physicians that could lead to such ineffective or positively harmful recommendations is Benjamin Rush s treatment of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793 (see Powell, 1949). Dr. Rush was one of the most highly respected physicians in North America in the 18th century. 

Jones, Jessica Macleary, Brieann Mellar, Starlit Monzingo, and Daniel Thurow WHEREAS, student nurses have contributed to disaster relief from the time of The Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888 and WHEREAS, the American Red Cross recognizes the contributions of student nurses in delivering critical community services for more than half a century and WHEREAS, the United States has experienced many crisis events, both natural and manmade, within the past four years and WHEREAS, no community is ever fully prepared to handle a massive disaster with a large influx of patients and... 

Infants under 9 months old are not generally immunized, except if they live in rural areas with a history of yellow fever epidemics (immunization at 6 months) or in an active epidemic focus (immunization at 4 months) (1). 

His 1868 book Earth elosets describes a system of handling human waste eonveniently. He applied his ideas first at Ogdensburg NY. In 1879, as a member of the National Board of Health, he investigated the yellow fever epidemic of Memphis TN, whieh had caused 5,000 deaths. 

For those infectious diseases that are transmitted to humans via insect vectors the onset and decline phases of epidemics are rarely observed other than as a reflections of the seasonal variation in the prevalence of the insect. Rather, the disease is endemic within the population group and has a steady incidence of new cases. Diseases such as these are generally controlled by public health measures and environmental control of the vector with vaccination and immunization being deployed to protect individuals (e.g. yellow fever vaccination). 

New Orleans was also filthy, no different in this respect from Paris. Garbage and waste clogged the streets of both cities, and disease was epidemic. During Rillieux s last year in Paris, cholera killed 18,402 people, most of them desperately poor. The year Rillieux arrived home, yellow fever struck New Orleans 8000 people, one-sixth of the town s population, died. 

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This country s earliest experience with biologies dates back to the infectious scourges of the late 1800s and early 1900s when epidemics of typhoid, yellow fever, smallpox, diphtheria, and tuberculosis were being battled by new advances in immunology. The discovery and development of vaccines and antitoxins led to the creation of a... 

The main epidemic regions are South America and equatorial Africa, i.e. the so-called yellow fever belt between the 15 northern latitude and the 15 southern... 

Streptococcal pharyngitis Sulfur mustard poisoning Trichinellosis Tularemia Typhus - epidemic Typhus - scrub Yellow fever... 

Staphylococcus food poisoning, 215-217 Sulfur mustard poisoning, 403-406 Tetrodotoxin poisoning, 414-417 Thallium poisoning, 418-421 Trichinellosis, 222-226 Trichothecene poisoning, 422-425 Typhoid fever, 232-236 Typhus - epidemic, 237-241 Typhus - murine, 242-245 Typhus - scrub, 246-249 Viral gastroenteritis, 254-256 West Nile fever, 261-265 Yellow fever, 270-273 Yersiniosis, 274-277... 

Hayes (5) has also reviewed the contribution of pesticides to the control of human diseases spread by arthropods and other vectors. Outbreaks of malaria, louse-borne typhus, plague, and urban yellow fever, four of the most important epidemic diseases of history, have been controlled by use of the organochlorine insecticides, especially DDT. In fact, the single most significant benefit from pesticides has been the protection from malaria. Today malaria eradication is an accomplished fact for 619 million people who live in areas once malarious. Where eradication has been achieved it has stood the test of time. An additional 334 million people live in areas where transmission of the parasite is no longer a major problem. Thus, about 1 billion people, or approximately one-fourth of the population of the world, no longer live under the threat of malaria. 

The recurrence of well-characterized epidemic-prone diseases such as cholera, dengue, influenza, measles, meningitis, shigellosis, and yellow fever... 

On occasion, the virus spreads beyond the affected individual. The intermediate cycle of yellow fever transmission occurs in humid or semi-humid savannahs of Africa and can produce small-scale epidemics in rural villages. Semi-domestic mosquitoes infect both monkey and human hosts and increased contact between man and infected mosquito leads to disease. This is the most common type of outbreak observed in recent decades in Africa. Urban yellow fever results in large explosive epidemics when travelers from rural areas introduce the virus into areas with high human population density. Domestic mosquitoes, most notably Aedes aegypti, carry the virus from person to person. These outbreaks tend to spread outward from one source to cover a wide area. 

Historically, epidemiology originated in relation to the study of the great epidemic diseases such as cholera, bubonic plague, (often referred to as Black Death in the Middle Ages) smallpox, yellow fever and typhus. These disease were associated with high mortality and, until the twentieth century, were the most important threats to life. 

Monath TP. Yellow fever Victor, Victoria Conqueror, conquest Epidemics and research in the last forty years and prospects for the future. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1991 45(1) 1 -43. 

Dengue and yellow fever (gnats Aedes aegypti), trachoma (houseflies), typhus (fleas and lice), and Lyme disease (ticks). In 1943, shortly after the liberation of Naples, the outbreak of a typhus epidemic posed a serious threat to the Allied troops and civilians likewise. By mixing DDT... 

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