The Yellow Fever Epidemic Summary

The harrowing accounts of people that suffered through the yellow fever epidemic of 1885 presented the devastation caused by communicable diseases to an uninformed society. It is disheartening to read about the chain of events that lead to the death of thousands of people who were victims of both the disease and their time period. They were fighting a disease with an unknown etiology, unknown mode of transmission, and no clear treatment. They fought a losing battle with winter as their only saving grace. It would be another seven years till Dr. Reed and Dr. Finely proved that the disease was spread through mosquitos and about thirty years till a vaccine is developed.
The valiant efforts put forth by the local doctors, nurses, priests and