yellow fever

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4/19/2022
  

  Racism and the 19th Century Yellow Fever Epidemic in New Orleans

  by Karin Wulf

  Karin Wulf interviews Kathryn Olivarius about her new book on the social and racial factors that prolonged a contagious epidemic that may have killed as many as 150,000 people in New Orleans between 1803 and 1861. 

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• SOURCE: Labor Online
  5/18/2020
  

  The Contagion and a Cure

  by Mark Lause

  Mark Lause looks at the 1793 yellow fever pandemic in Philadelphia from a working class history perspective, and finds it informs us today.

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  5/14/2020
  

  Why History Urges Caution on Coronavirus Immunity Testing

  The idea that people can gain privileged status by proving their immunity to a disease has troubling historical precedents, both in terms of social prejudices and public health outcomes.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/27/2020
  

  During Epidemics, Media (and now Social Media) have Always Helped People to Connect

  by David Paul Nord

  For several hundred years, people have used media — reading, writing and print — to maintain human contact and community in times of epidemic disease.

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• 4/19/2020
  

  Thomas Jefferson, Yellow Fever, and Land Planning for Public Health

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Although Thomas Jefferson was generally an anti-urbanist, he did offer insight into the role of land use in helping towns and cities control epidemics and promote public health.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/12/2020
  

  The Dangerous History of Immunoprivilege

  by Kathryn Olivarius

  We’ve seen what happens when people with immunity to a deadly disease are given special treatment. It isn’t pretty.

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• SOURCE: Creators Syndicate
  3/25/2020
  

  Notes From the New Normal

  by Jamie Stiehm

  America is not immune to the world. We're all connected in "a single garment of destiny," as Martin Luther King Jr. wrote.