October would mark the end of the epidemic, with 452 deaths recorded in New Orleans. The year would also mark the last time a yellow fever epidemic plagued the United States, though the disease ...

By 1878, conditions were ripe for a powerful epidemic of yellow fever in the Mississippi Valley.

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Olivarius acknowledges there are limits to comparing the COVID-19 pandemic to yellow fever epidemics in 19th-century New Orleans. For one thing, theirs was a culture of mass mortality, a highly ...