1878
People weren’t the only things that traveled on the railroads and steamships that now crisscrossed your young grandparents’ America. Yellow fever, an old menace long relegated to the tropics and isolated Southern plantations, now hitched rides all over the country. An especially nasty epidemic brought the country to its knees when as many as 20,000 people died from a yellow fever outbreak that originated in New Orleans.
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