Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1853
Abstractions and Realities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10242446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Ann Carrigan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1959 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 339 |
| Publication date | 1959-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2954767 |
| PMID | 19593914 |
| OpenAlex | W2413994372 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
fever appeared in New Orleans. Invariably it carried off a few victims and too frequently the disease reached epidemic proportions. Throughout the entire period of the recurring invasions, from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, the deadly black vomit remained a distressing enigma to physicians and laymen alike. In the early 1900's the Aedes aegypti was positively identified as the agent of transmission. Yellow fever then ceased to be a mystery and, in New Orleans at least, epidemics ceased to be
History · Mosquito-borne diseases and control · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Zoonotic diseases and public health
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1961 - 2026 (66) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |