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    The Yellow fever in Buenos Aires was a series of epidemics that took place in 1852, 1858, 1870 and 1871, the latter being a disaster that killed about...
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    Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains—particularly...
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    epidemic of yellow fever in Buenos Aires in 1916. The 2000 pesos Argentinian banknote issued in 2023 show the headquarters of Malbran Institute in the neighborhood...
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    which flowed into the Río de la Plata. When Buenos Aires suffered terrible cholera and yellow fever epidemics in the 1870s, the population of the city spread...
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    not to join Richard III's army prior to the Battle of Bosworth. Relapsing fever, a disease spread by ticks and lice, has been proposed as a possible cause...
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    Barracas is a barrio, or district, in the southeast part of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located between the railroad of Ferrocarril General...
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    ("Saint Pedro González Telmo") is the oldest barrio (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is a well-preserved area of the Argentine metropolis and...
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    The Buenos Aires Western Railway (BAWR) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Oeste de Buenos Aires), inaugurated in the city of Buenos Aires on 29 August 1857, was...
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    2023–2024 mpox epidemic (category August 2024 events in Africa)
    small mammals in central areas of Africa; it can also infect humans. Symptoms include a rash that forms blisters and then crusts over, fever, and swollen...
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  • Progreso founded. Yellow fever epidemic. 1853 City becomes capital of State of Buenos Aires. Germania club founded. 1854 – Buenos Aires Stock Exchange,...
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  • 27 January – Yellow Fever in Buenos Aires: Three cases of yellow fever are diagnosed in the San Telmo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, which is full of tenements...
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    During the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the register of deaths between August 1 and November 9. The...
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    Plague of Justinian (category Health disasters in Africa)
    in 542, at the height of the epidemic which killed about a fifth of the population in the imperial capital. The contagion arrived in Roman Egypt in 541...
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    In 1878, a severe yellow fever epidemic swept through the lower Mississippi Valley. During the American Civil War, New Orleans was occupied with Union...
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    Chascomús and the city of Buenos Aires, which at that time was the provincial capital. The yellow fever epidemic that occurred in 1871 diversified the location...
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    (Spanish pronunciation: [alˈmaɣɾo]) is a barrio or neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The neighbourhood is delimited by La Plata avenue and Río...
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    mosquitos or ticks. Some of these diseases, such as malaria, yellow fever, and dengue fever, can have potentially severe health consequences. Climate can...
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    Corbeil had already used atra mors to refer to a "pestilential fever" (febris pestilentialis) in his work On the Signs and Symptoms of Diseases (De signis...
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    Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (category Racism in Argentina)
    popularity. In addition, the arrival of a large influx of European immigrants was blamed for the outbreak of Yellow Fever in Buenos Aires and the risk...
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  • September 11 – coup d'etat in Argentina; Buenos Aires Province declares independence. Yellow fever in Buenos Aires epidemic February 4 – Martiniano Chilavert...
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    face, excessive blood in the meninges, and other general neurological symptoms. Officially recognized as its own condition in 1917, it is believed to...
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    The Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires is a private hospital in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. It has 750 beds and serves around 2,000 inpatients per...
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    the Grave (tr. Isabel Adey for Charco Press, 2023). Samanta Schweblin: Fever Dream (tr. Megan McDowell for Riverhead Books, 2017), Little Eyes (tr. Megan...
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    Antonine Plague (category 160s in the Roman Empire)
    He described the plague as "great" and of long duration, and mentioned fever, diarrhea, and pharyngitis as well as a skin eruption, sometimes dry and...
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    Cocoliztli epidemics (category Hemorrhagic fevers outbreaks)
    of a mysterious illness characterized by high fevers and bleeding which caused 5–15 million deaths in New Spain during the 16th century. The Aztec people...
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  • Manuel Argerich (category People from Buenos Aires)
    born in Buenos Aires in 1835. His brother, Juan Antonio, was born in 1840 and was, like Manuel, a key figure during the cholera and yellow fever epidemics...
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    José C. Paz (category Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires)
    was born in Buenos Aires and started his education in that city but was forced to move to Rosario due to the civil war fought in Argentina. In July 1859...
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    plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, mumps, yellow fever, and pertussis. The lack of written records in many places and the destruction of many native...
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    Epidemic (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from September 2023)
    the same, with the certaine and absolute cure of the fevers, botches and carbuncles that raigne in these times. London: Edward White. CHAP. 1. Of the nature...
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    1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak (category History of medicine in the United Kingdom)
    circulatory or the nervous system and there was no "poison in the blood...in the consecutive fever...the blood became poisoned from urea getting into the...
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