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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    ("Saint Pedro González Telmo") is the oldest barrio (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A well-preserved area of the Argentine metropolis, it hosts...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    (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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    The 2019 Samoa measles outbreak began in September 2019. As of 6 January 2020, there were over 5,700 cases of measles and 83 deaths, out of a Samoan population...
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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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    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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    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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    Plague of Justinian (category Health disasters in Africa)
    Procopius said that plague sufferers experienced delusions, nightmares, fevers, swellings in the groin, armpits and behind the ears, and coma or death. Treatments...
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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 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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    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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    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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    1889–1890 pandemic (category 1889 in biology)
    it spread to Mexico and to South America, reaching Buenos Aires by 2 February. India received it in February 1890, and Singapore and the Dutch East Indies...
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    due to the plague in 1603, 35,000 in 1625, 10,000 in 1636, and smaller numbers in other years. In late 1664, a bright comet was seen in the sky, and the...
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    Parque Patricios (category Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires)
    to the Victims of the 1871 Yellow Fever Epidemic Social Housing Casa Colectiva Valentín Alsina Interior of the Buenos Aires central government buildings...
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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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  • 2018 Madagascar measles outbreak (category 2018 in Madagascar)
    In early September 2018, cases of measles began to appear in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The capital's health authorities, challenged by the district's poverty...
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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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    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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