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.

“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 ...

In 1793, refugees from the Caribbean Islands sailed into Philadelphia and brought with them the virus that caused yellow fever which eventually led to an epidemic. The condition causes fever ...