Lower Mississippi Valley yellow fever epidemic of 1878
In 1878, a severe yellow fever epidemic swept through the lower Mississippi Valley. Wikipedia
Start date: August 1878
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In 1878, a severe yellow fever epidemic swept through the lower Mississippi Valley. "Tennessee-Memphis under quarantine rule; scenes in the plague-stricken ...
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In 1878, a yellow fever outbreak devastated the Mississippi River Valley and beyond on a scale larger than the epidemics before it.
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