Samantha Gibson. The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. 2016. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-yellow-fever-epidemic-of-1878. (Accessed August 15, 2024.)
"Yellow Fever Vaccine Discovered By A Doctor. Canadian Scientist Returns From Long Stay in Brazil." Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), March 1, 1909: 1.
"If you get yellow fever today your chances of survival are probably not much different than they were in the 1700s or the 1800. It's still going to be 1 out of every 5 or so who are going to die. There is no treatment, you can prevent it but you can't treat yellow fever." — Jim Writer, author, Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Scourge. Retrieved from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/fever-historical-guide-yellow-fever/
Step back in time to 1878, to revisit what it was like in Memphis during one of the worst disease outbreaks in history. Learn how Yellow Fever left its mark on the city, and how it still shapes our lives today.
Featuring interviews with Kim Bearden (Elmwood Cemetery) and Taylor Hopkins (Mallory-Neely House)
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