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23 paź 2018 · Yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, and influenza are by no means the only epidemics to have affected New York City. Learn more about Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis, which was on view at the Museum from September 18, 2018–April 28, 2019.
20 mar 2020 · 1. Yellow Fever. The quarantine station on Staten Island. Image from New York Public Library. In August 1793, a yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia, killing around 5,000 residents out of 50,000 ...
21 lip 2017 · Cholera jest bardzo niebezpieczną chorobą o ostrym przebiegu, której charakterystycznymi objawami są bóle brzucha oraz wymioty. Wraz z jej rozwojem zaczyna pojawiać się zmarszczenie skóry oraz zmiana barwy głosu. Nieleczona w ponad połowie przypadków prowadzi do śmierci.
4 dni temu · Many epidemics and pandemics have plagued New York City such as cholera in mid-1800s to diphtheria from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. As more diseases struck New York City,...
April 15, 2008. On a Sunday in July 1832, a fearful and somber crowd of New Yorkers gathered in City Hall Park for more bad news. The epidemic of cholera, cause unknown and prognosis dire, had...
30 cze 2020 · Cholera swept through New York in 1832, 1849 and 1866, killing thousands of New Yorkers and infecting thousands more. During cholera years in the 1830s and 1850s, mortality rates soared to heights almost double those of the beginning of the century and over quadruple current levels — killing more than 50 per 1,000 people, or approximately 1 ...
Cholera was among the most virulent infectious diseases to strike nineteenth-century New York. Transmitted by contaminated food and water, cholera causes diarrhea and vomiting so severe that death by dehydration is possible if the symptoms are left untreated.
