Yellow Fever: A Plague In The Summer Of 1793

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In the summer of 1793, Yellow Fever was a plague that took thousands of souls of people that lived in Philadelphia. The Yellow fever got to Philly by foreign ships with mosquito that have bread in the cargo areas. People got yellow fever by an infected mosquito. The mosquito got infected by biting people that were already infected. The people that treated the infection were doctors from Philadelphia and French doctors. Both the French and American doctors tried to help all the yellow fever victims as well as they knew how too. They both thought that cleaning out the body was important to help cure yellow fever. These doctors work their butts off to help the patients. These two different doctors were the most outstanding in the country to

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