New York suffered seven major yellow fever epidemics from 1702 to 1800.

In the 1870s, a series of yellow fever epidemics devastated Memphis.

Deadly yellow fever epidemics in the 1870's brought mass exodus and financial ruin.

For decades, the City had been wracked with typhoid fever epidemics.

This was cut short in part by the Panic of 1837 and yellow fever epidemics.

Yellow fever epidemics became seen as a national crisis.

One of the most devastating was a series of yellow fever epidemics.

Yellow fever epidemics and material shortages slowed construction of the fort, which continued throughout the 1850s.

The city's frequent yellow fever epidemics decimated its Jewish community, which dropped from 2,100 to 300.

Extensive yellow fever epidemics in the 1870s (1873, 1878 and 1879) devastated the city.