Cause And Effect Essay On Yellow Fever

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Yellow Fever snuck up and swept people by their feet to the ground. Truck loads of French and Philadelphia doctors rushed looking for a cure for the inconvenient yellow fever victims. It all started on a serene alluring sunny day spread by infected mosquitos. The horrid disease believed to have been brought by foreign boats and refugees. When it struck another victim it got up to bat and hit a homerun killing every player trying to catch it. Yellow Fever swept away about 2,000-5,000 souls.

One occurrence that both doctors did was they all work like animals which made sleep very valuable. Some say that they saw about 100 ill fever victims a day. Both kinds of doctors cared a good deal about each and every patient. They took care of their

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