***ASSUMMED*** Burial as a victim of the yellow fever epidemic of 1878.
Yellow fever is an acute systemic illness - a hemorrhagic fever - caused by the Flavivirus. Acute means it comes on (onset) rapidly, while systemic means it affects the whole body. In severe cases yellow fever causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin and the death of cells in the liver and kidney. Liver damage results in severe jaundice - yellowing of the skin; hence the name "yellow fever".
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The Hickman Courier newspaper, Hickman, Fulton County, KY
13 September 1878; Page 5, Column 1
THE EPEDEMIC
Total Number of Deaths 153
The Tribulations of a Long Suffering and Grateful People
The following is a correct list of the dead, which we obtain from Mr. Ed. Case, who had the fever early and kept a daily record during the epidemic.
List of the Dead:
Oct. 30 - Belle Alexander
Yellow fever is an acute systemic illness - a hemorrhagic fever - caused by the Flavivirus. Acute means it comes on (onset) rapidly, while systemic means it affects the whole body. In severe cases yellow fever causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin and the death of cells in the liver and kidney. Liver damage results in severe jaundice - yellowing of the skin; hence the name "yellow fever".
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The Hickman Courier newspaper, Hickman, Fulton County, KY
13 September 1878; Page 5, Column 1
THE EPEDEMIC
Total Number of Deaths 153
The Tribulations of a Long Suffering and Grateful People
The following is a correct list of the dead, which we obtain from Mr. Ed. Case, who had the fever early and kept a daily record during the epidemic.
List of the Dead:
Oct. 30 - Belle Alexander
***ASSUMMED*** Burial as a victim of the yellow fever epidemic of 1878.
Yellow fever is an acute systemic illness - a hemorrhagic fever - caused by the Flavivirus. Acute means it comes on (onset) rapidly, while systemic means it affects the whole body. In severe cases yellow fever causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin and the death of cells in the liver and kidney. Liver damage results in severe jaundice - yellowing of the skin; hence the name "yellow fever".
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The Hickman Courier newspaper, Hickman, Fulton County, KY
13 September 1878; Page 5, Column 1
THE EPEDEMIC
Total Number of Deaths 153
The Tribulations of a Long Suffering and Grateful People
The following is a correct list of the dead, which we obtain from Mr. Ed. Case, who had the fever early and kept a daily record during the epidemic.
List of the Dead:
Oct. 30 - Belle Alexander
Yellow fever is an acute systemic illness - a hemorrhagic fever - caused by the Flavivirus. Acute means it comes on (onset) rapidly, while systemic means it affects the whole body. In severe cases yellow fever causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin and the death of cells in the liver and kidney. Liver damage results in severe jaundice - yellowing of the skin; hence the name "yellow fever".
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The Hickman Courier newspaper, Hickman, Fulton County, KY
13 September 1878; Page 5, Column 1
THE EPEDEMIC
Total Number of Deaths 153
The Tribulations of a Long Suffering and Grateful People
The following is a correct list of the dead, which we obtain from Mr. Ed. Case, who had the fever early and kept a daily record during the epidemic.
List of the Dead:
Oct. 30 - Belle Alexander
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