The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic

Yellow fever got its name from the symptom of the virus that turns your skin yellow. When native americans first saw this new disease,they had no idea what it was because it was new to them. So they called it yellow fever for the most obvious reason of it turning your skin yellow. The disease was also called black vomit disease because of the blood that would come out of the bloody but it was basically dry blood and the meant that the disease was getting ready to completely take over the body ending in death.
The arrival of Yellow Fever in the western Hemisphere came into the “new world” by Christopher Columbus and his crew. They were out to discover new land and by going around the world they encountered new disease therefore spreading more …show more content…
The south had many ports that ships from latin America would come to and bring the Yellow fever and those sick with it and causing more and more people to contract the disease.
The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic started by Refugees from areas with the disease moved to Philly and caused others to contract the disease and leading to a huge epidemic of Yellow fever and killing over 5000 people.
The residents of Santa Domingue left their island to come to America because they did not want to fight in a war that was out breaking in their country. The salves were upset and out to get revenge therefore the people who wanted nothing to do with it fled and came to America to settle in English Colonies.
The lazaretto was a quarantine hospital in Philadelphia. It was a way to try and limit the spread of the disease by putting those who had the disease in the hospital until they were completely free or death. They had it set up so that when people who came in from other countries into the ports would be checked for yellow fever and if they showed symptoms they would be put into the hospital instill no symptoms were