Global & Disaster Medicine

Yellow fever earned New Orleans the nickname “Necropolis” — city of the dead.

November 5th, 2018

NPR

How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The ‘City Of The Dead’

October 31, 201811:00 AM ET

“…..Yellow fever didn’t just kill. It created an entire social structure based on who had survived the virus, who was likely to survive it and who was not long for this world. And that structure had everything to do with immigration and slavery….”

Yellow fever virus has three transmission cycles: jungle (sylvatic), intermediate (savannah), and urban.

 

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