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Outbreak of Smallpox in N. America
Folk song about early settlersSmallpox came to America with the first Europeans. It wiped out entire tribes of Native peoples. http://www.healthline.com/health/worst-disease-outbreaks-history#Smallpox2 -
Yellowfever Hits Philadelphia
Yellow fever spread from Caribbean refugees in the city. It was transferred by mosquitoes and spread all summer. By winter over 2,000 people had died. Symptoms of this disease are that it turns skin yellow and victims run a bad fever.
