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I don't know specific date of yellow fever, but I do know that it orginated in Africa. It then it was brought to the New World during the slave trade of the 1500s.
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Due to yellow fever people were quarantined to their homes.
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In 1699 yellow fever spread to the American Colonies via the slave trade.
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Yellow fever wipes out the population of Philadelphia.
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Yellow fever travels to the Mississippi Valley and people begin dying.
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Carlos Finlay identifies a suspect for yellow fever.
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Bacterium was mistakenly blamed for the yellow fever epedemic.
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US Army researchers discover the cause of yellow fever.
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Efforts begin to control the yellow fever disease.
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North America see the last yellow fever epidemic.
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The Rockefeller Foundation forms a commission to oversee the yellow fever epedemic.
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Max Theiler begins to work on his vaccination for yellow fever.
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Max contiues to work on finding a vaccination for yellow fever.
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Max finally found a vaccination which helped with the yellow fever epedemic.
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Max wins a Nobel Prize for his work on the yellow fever vaccination.
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United States begins working on protecting Americans from mosquitos who could be carrying the disease.
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Yellow fever is found in patients in South America.
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Infected people were dying due to yellow fever.
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Due to new cases and deaths, more research is happening and vaccination efforts are being supported.
