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Between May and October, yellow fever first strikes in Havanna, Cuba. About one third of the population dies.
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Troops in the carribean get the fever. About 1,500 of them catch the fever and suffer.
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Boston becomes the first Nirth American Colony to be affected by the fever.
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New York was the next victim of yellow fever and looses ten precent of its population because of the disease.
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The summer begins with the horrible disease and lingers for seven years.
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The fever effects the eastern region again!
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About 5,000 people of Philidelphia die from the awful and deadly disease. Thousands die over the next decade.
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The U.S. city is hardly impacted as the Fever. It suffered the worst death amount with 8,100 deaths.
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Over the years, the fever returns and takes about 3,000 lives.
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From 1958 to 1966, Africa had an outbreak of the Fever killing thousnads.
