Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic of 1793 was the largest in the history of the United States, claiming the lives of nearly 4000 people. In late summer, as the number of deaths began to climb ...

Yellow fever appeared in the U.S. in the ... 730 dead New York City, which in 1793 had turned away refugees from the epidemic in Philadelphia, suffered its own epidemic two summers later.

George Washington's second inauguration took place in Philadelphia in March 1793 ... react when the epidemic called "American plague" struck Philadelphia? Yellow fever, spread by mosquitos ...

the yellow-fever epidemic of 1793, and his battle with William Cobbett, then subsiding after Cobbett's departure from America in June, 1800.

“I write about yellow fever by day and worry about COVID-19 ... when the coronavirus epidemic broke out. Now she’s seeing parallels between what happened in the South and her own experiences ...