We are told unequivocally mosquitoes were the carriers of yellow fever.Įlias Lowenstein was said to have built his mansion in 1891, called one of the most important Victorian Romanesque mansions in Memphis, and one of the finest of its style in the South. He was hospitalized and quarantined the next day and died, and Kate Bionda became Memphis’ first death from yellow fever on August 13th, and from there the yellow-fever infections spread quickly throughout Memphis. ![]() However, a man from a quarantined steamboat slipped away and went to Kate Bionda’s restaurant in Memphis on August 4th. What we are told is that in July of 1878, an outbreak of yellow fever was reported in Vicksburg, so Memphis officials stopped travel to the city from the safe. Yellow fever was so named because of the yellow-ish hue of the skin and eyes it causes, affecting multiple organ systems and causing internal bleeding. The outbreak originated in New Orleans in the spring and summer of that year, and spread up the Mississippi River and inland. I have drawn a red line on this world map to demonstrate that there is a straight, west-to-east, linear relationship between the location of the Mississippi River Delta, and that of the Nile River Delta. There are some things I would like to point out about the Mississippi River and Nile River before I jump into the subject matter I have chosen to investigate in this post. The most important of these revolutions were in France, the Netherlands, Italy, the Austrian Empire, and the states of the German Confederation that would make up the German Empire in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries The Revolutions had the aim of removing the old monarchical structures and creating independent nation-states, and was the most widespread revolutionary wave in Europe’s history, with 50 countries being affected. The Revolutions of 1848 were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe that year. The Germans sought to escape the political unrest caused by riots, rebellion, and the Revolutions of 1848.
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