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==Yellow fever== |
==Yellow fever== |
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===Historical Background=== |
===Historical Background=== |
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The sinking of the Maine has historically been labeled as the reason behind the U.S. going to war with Spain. More recent studies however have debunked the importance of the Maine in America's involvement. Yellow Fever is one of the reasons that America went to war. Cuba was a staging ground for many diseases entering the Southern United States. <ref>Espinosa, “The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898,” Journal of Southern History LXXII, 3 (August 2006) 541-542</ref> Fear over the disease has been known to shut down whole cities. New Orleans in 1897 experienced one such epidemic. |
The sinking of the Maine has historically been labeled as the reason behind the U.S. going to war with Spain. More recent studies however have debunked the importance of the Maine in America's involvement. [[Yellow Fever]] is one of the reasons that America went to war. Cuba was a staging ground for many diseases entering the Southern United States. <ref>Espinosa, “The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898,” Journal of Southern History LXXII, 3 (August 2006) 541-542</ref> Fear over the disease has been known to shut down whole cities. New Orleans in 1897 experienced one such epidemic. |
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===Occupations effect on disease=== |
===Occupations effect on disease=== |
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Yellow fever
Historical Background
The sinking of the Maine has historically been labeled as the reason behind the U.S. going to war with Spain. More recent studies however have debunked the importance of the Maine in America's involvement. Yellow Fever is one of the reasons that America went to war. Cuba was a staging ground for many diseases entering the Southern United States. [1] Fear over the disease has been known to shut down whole cities. New Orleans in 1897 experienced one such epidemic.
Occupations effect on disease
It was originally believed that cases of Yellow Fever would increase through trade with Cuba however when Spain invaded Cuba the disease spread at a fast pace.
- ^ Espinosa, “The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898,” Journal of Southern History LXXII, 3 (August 2006) 541-542