Though Northern cities such as New York and Boston freed themselves of the curse after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, yellow fever flourished in the South for decades after the Civil War.

Mrs. Carlile, who had come to Chattanooga as a bride at the close of the Civil War, stayed by her husband's bed along with her brother-in-law, Will Carlile, and Dr. E.M. Wight.

Yellow fever raged through the city in the early 1800s. ... After the Civil War the structure was used as a place where veterans gathered for Mass. In 1875 it became a parish church.

Yellow Jack, commonly known as yellow fever, attacked Tallahassee and the surrounding areas, even making headlines in other states. ... The community was abandoned after the Civil War.

One year before the U.S. Civil War ended, an embargo had brought the southern ice trade to a halt, causing the region’s chefs, ... headaches and leg pain. Yellow fever kills up to 50 percent of those ...

Yellow fever joins other diseases — malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis — that were once confined to the tropics, but have now spread northwards into the US due to a warming climate.