WATCH: Yellow Fever

WATCH: Yellow Fever

Watch this informational video on the Yellow Fever that plagued Philadelphia.  As you watch this video, consider answers for the following questions?

- Where is the disease believed to have started?  

- How did the disease travel to America?

- How is the disease transmitted?

- In what conditions does yellow fever thrive? 

- What are the signs and symptoms?

- What role did the French play in the spread of disease?

- What impact did this epidemic have on America?

- Why was Philadelphia (then the nation's capital) hit so hard?

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