Yellow Fever

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  • Title Yellow Fever
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  • Keywords one of the most dreaded diseases in South Carolina during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, transmitted by mosquitoes and strikes in warm weather, Aedes aegypti mosquito, generally runs its course in a week to ten days, Victims often die of kidney failure, but patients who survive are henceforth immune, introduced into South Carolina as a result of the African slave trade, dreaded not only for the horrible deaths it caused, but also because it could have a devastating impact on public business and commerce
  • Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
  • Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
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  • Access Date March 28, 2024
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  • Date of Last Update August 22, 2022
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