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This map is important because it shows you the population of how many people have gotten yellow fever in Philadelphia. I cant believe that the government cant do anything and I don't understand why doctors haven't found a cure for this disease.

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This cartoon is important because it shows how bad the disease is for some people and how they don't have the current medicine we have today and how the government isn't making a big point to help any of the unlucky people that have it. This relates to the book because in the beginning when Matilda and her grandpa were going to go out of town, a doctor just checked up on them and didn't really do anything to help. The doctor just wouldn't let them through because Matilda did.

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This picture makes me think about why this was spreading. The people were in a safe place so that this disease wouldn't spread. I think it's crazy that this rare disease was spreading so rapidly. In my book Mother Smith works as a doctor to help others that have yellow fever. When people have yellow fever, they go to the place where Mother Smith works and get taken care of.

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"Fever - 1793"  - Historic Philadelphia Documentary [HD]

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WPVI-TV, 6ABC Philadelphia Presents "Fever - 1793" ---- With a population of approximately 55,000 in 1793, Philadelphia was America's largest city, its capital and its busiest port. The summer of that year was unusually dry and hot. The water levels of streams and wells were dangerously reduced, providing an excellent breeding ground for insects.

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This video shows you how this fever was caught and how it spread. It also says where the location was. This explains the whole story and deaths of important people in this book. It also gives you some facts about yellow fever. This shows you how the fever started and now that the winter is coming, the fever is finally going away because in winter, their are no mosquitoes.

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This letter is important because it gives you more information about the yellow fever massacre that happened in the book ¨Fever", it also gives you an understanding of what it is and how you get it.
By: Ava Natelli

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Matilda (Mattie) Cook Timeline in Fever, 1793

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Sometimes it's hard to keep track of what Matilda (Mattie) Cook is up to during Fever, 1793. Luckily, we've got you covered.

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This Timeline is very important because this shows you what is in the book and you can even look at a timeline of each chapter. This timeline has helped me because when I finish my reading, I go on this and look at the timeline for the chapters I read that night. It gives you all the important details about that chapter or the whole book.

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The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits 100 on October 11, 1793. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead.

Yellow fever, or American plague as it was known at the time, is a viral disease that begins with fever and muscle pain. Next, victims often become jaundiced (hence, the term "yellow" fever), as their liver and kidneys cease to function normally. Some of the afflicted then suffer even worse symptoms. Famous early American Cotton Mather described it as "turning yellow then vomiting and bleeding every way." Internal bleeding in the digestive tract causes bloody vomit. Many victims become delirious before dying.

The first yellow fever outbreaks in the United States occurred in late 1690s. Nearly 100 years later, in the late summer of 1793, refugees from a yellow fever epidemic in the Caribbean fled to Philadelphia. Within weeks, people throughout the city were experiencing symptoms. By the middle of October, 100 people were dying from the virus every day. Caring for the victims so strained public services that the local city government collapsed. Philadelphia was also the seat of the United States government at the time, but federal authorities simply evacuated the city in face of the raging epidemic.

Eventually, a cold front eliminated Philadelphia's mosquito population and the death toll fell to 20 per day by October 26. Today, a vaccine prevents yellow fever in much of the world, though thousands of people still die every year from the disease.

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The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits 100 on October 11, 1793. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead. Yellow fever, or American plague as it was known at the time, is a viral disease that begins with fever and muscle pain.

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This article shows how people had to deal with yellow fever specifically in Philadelphia, where the book takes place. This article helps you understand how dangerous this disease really is and how it affected the colony with all the people still in it. This relates to the book because all around the book people of all ages get Yellow Fever. For example, Mattie's Mom, Nell, Matthew, William, and Polly.

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Reports on the yellow fever epidemic, 1793 | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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Between August 1 and November 9, 1793, approximately 11,000 people contracted yellow fever in the US capital of Philadelphia. Of that number, 5,000 people, 10 percent of the city's population, died. The disease gets its name from the jaundiced eyes and skin of the victims. Other symptoms include fever, headache, and "black vomit" caused by bleeding into the stomach.

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This document is from Philadelphia when the outbreak was happening. This document gives great information on how many people got the fever during this massachere and people reporting that the fever was very contagious and they needed to get out of Philadelphia.
By: Ava Natelli

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Doctors in Philadelphia diagnosed the first local case of what would later become known as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in September 1981, just months after the Centers for Disease Control first reported mysterious outbreaks of pneumocystis pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma among gay men in New York and Los Angeles that marked the beginning of the recognized AIDS epidemic in the United States. Since pneumocystis pneumonia is rarely seen in healthy patients but common to those with weakened immune systems, and Kaposi's sarcoma is a skin cancer otherwise seen among elderly Mediterranean men, the presence of these diseases in otherwise healthy young men signaled the potential for a serious public health crisis. Researchers later discovered the cause of AIDS to be the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which replicates in the human body by killing cells that are vital to immune function, over time depressing the ability of the host body to fight off infections.

Although the number of new cases in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco multiplied quickly over the first two years of the epidemic, at first the number of people with AIDS in Philadelphia rose slowly. Within the first year, only seven cases were reported locally, but by early 1983 trends in Philadelphia seemed to be catching up to the rapidly growing epidemic witnessed in New York and California. The disease also appeared in New Jersey, particularly in the urban corridors between Philadelphia and New York and between Philadelphia and Atlantic City, and in Delaware.

As gay men watched their friends and lovers die in increasing numbers, they organized in response. Philadelphia Community Health Alternatives (PCHA, later known as the Mazzoni Center), a health clinic founded in 1979 to serve the local lesbian and gay community, formed the Philadelphia AIDS Task Force to provide social services to those affected and offer information about AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases through a local hotline. Meanwhile, social clubs like the Gay Men's Chorus and Girlfriends Motorcycle Club joined forces to raise funds for PCHA's education and prevention efforts.

Spread of AIDS

By the middle 1980s public health authorities recognized that the AIDS epidemic had grown beyond the communities of gay men in which doctors first identified the disease. Researchers in the United States and France had identified HIV as the cause of AIDS in 1983, and thus definitively determined that the disease could be transmitted through blood-to-blood contact, including needle-sharing among intravenous drug users, blood transfusions, and from an infected mother to her unborn child. At the same time, in cities around the country, reports showed the growing incidence of HIV and AIDS among African Americans and Latinos, particularly within networks of intravenous drug users and among their sexual partners and young children. Although those in this "second wave" of new cases had likely been infected for some time, their low access to medical care combined with the long latency period of HIV, during which time the virus spreads throughout a patient's system but does not produce symptoms, to initially mask the prevalence of AIDS within communities of color.

In Philadelphia, by 1985 African Americans made up almost half of all reported AIDS cases, and the majority of cases among people under twenty five years old. David Fair, a longtime local gay activist and secretary-treasurer of a local predominantly black health care workers' union, and Rashidah Hassan, a nurse who had worked with PCHA and its AIDS Task Force, became dissatisfied with the groups' failure to effectively reach out to African Americans at risk of contracting HIV. To stem the rising tide of new infections in Philadelphia's black community, in 1986 they founded Blacks Educating Blacks About Sexual Health Issues (BEBASHI), one of the nation's first black AIDS service organizations. Perceiving that the AIDS Task Force's efforts to reach out to the black community had been undercut by its reputation as an all-white organization, BEBASHI representatives worked through existing social institutions like African American churches so that their education and prevention messages that would resonate with black audiences. In New Jersey, Project IMPACT (Intensive Mobilization to Promote AIDS Awareness through Community-based Technologies) also reached out to African American leaders in urban areas.

In 1987, as the AIDS community nationwide became frustrated with the dearth of effective treatments and President Ronald Reagan's reticence on the epidemic, grassroots AIDS politics took a radical turn. In March, a group of New York activists founded the inaugural chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), an organization whose protest actions became the public face of AIDS advocacy in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The group quickly spawned a network of chapters in cities across the country and abroad, including Philadelphia, South Jersey, and Delaware.

Dramatic Demonstrations

Members of the Philadelphia branch of ACT UP began staging theatrical "die-ins" and other dramatic demonstrations to highlight the human cost of high prescription drug prices and inadequate public health policy. To protest the Catholic Church's opposition to condom use, in May 1991 around one hundred ACT UP Philadelphia members interrupted a prayer service for people with AIDS conducted by Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua and tried to place wrapped condoms near his hands and feet, shouting, "These will save lives-your morals won't." In addition to public protests, ACT UP became well known for creating memorable visual messages to both educate people about AIDS and mobilize those affected by the epidemic. In this vein, during one holiday season the Philadelphia chapter circulated stickers featuring an HIV-positive Santa Claus with the tagline, "If only Reagan and Bush had told the truth, Santa wouldn't have to die from AIDS."

During the mid-1990s, ACT UP declined in national prominence as the white gay men who filled much of the organization's ranks passed away, grew tired of activism, or gained access to the highly effective (but expensive) class of new antiretroviral drugs that became available due to advances in HIV treatment research. The Philadelphia chapter, however, remained vital due to the recruiting efforts of a core group of members, who reached out to lower-income people of color, among whom the nationwide AIDS epidemic continued to grow fastest. The changing membership in turn shaped the direction of the group's activism, as it increasingly focused on affordable housing, HIV prevention in prisons, and access to medications for impoverished people in the United States and throughout the developing world. Working with Health GAP (Global Access Project), a coalition of AIDS activists and allied organizations, Philadelphia ACT UP members pressured the White House to move forward with a coordinated response to the worldwide AIDS pandemic. This effort, supported by numerous AIDS action groups in Philadelphia and the Cooper Early Intervention Program in Camden, culminated in 2003 with President George W. Bush's announcement of the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a five-year, $15 billion commitment funding HIV prevention and drug access programs in Africa. In 2008, Congress reauthorized the program through 2013, and expanded its funding to almost $48 billion.

Four Decades

As the epidemic entered its fourth decade, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health estimated that 1.3% of the city's population was living with HIV or AIDS, about three times the national average. Center City and the surrounding area had the greatest prevalence of cases in Philadelphia County, with additional areas of high concentration in the Northeast, West Philadelphia, and around Germantown. Despite the city's relatively large percentage of people living with HIV and AIDS, local trends reflected patterns of infection for the United States as a whole, inasmuch as the epidemic in Philadelphia disproportionately affected African Americans, and in particular men who had sex with men and women, among whom the disease was growing fastest.

Regionally, statistics collected by the Centers for Disease Control from the beginning of the epidemic through 2008 showed New Jersey ranking fifth-highest in number AIDS diagnoses among the fifty states; Pennsylvania ranking seventh; and Delaware ranking thirty-third (although in rate of cases per thousand population, Delaware ranked eighth-highest in the nation). By 2010 Philadelphia accounted for the highest proportion of AIDS cases in Pennsylvania, surpassing other counties by far (20,411 diagnosed cases from 1980 to 2010, compared with 1,098 in Montgomery County, 1,743 in Delaware County, 802 in Bucks County, and 603 in Chester County). In South Jersey, by 2010 the disease was most prevalent in Atlantic County.

In light of these realities, activists reignited the search for an AIDS cure. In 2009 a group of veteran Philadelphia activists, many of whom had been part of ACT UP chapters around the country during the organization's heyday, founded the AIDS Policy Project to advocate for funding and scientific research on treatments to not only slow the spread of HIV within a patient's system, but eliminate it altogether. In this way, Philadelphians sought to lead the way to the end of the AIDS epidemic once and for all.
Dan Royles is a Ph.D. Candidate at Temple University. This essay is derived from his dissertation research on the political culture of African American AIDS activism.
Copyright 2012, University of Pennsylvania Press

Brier, Jennifer. Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Chambré, Susan M. Fighting for Our Lives: New York's AIDS Community and the Politics of Disease. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Levenson, Jacob. The Secret Epidemic: the Story of AIDS and Black America. New York: Pantheon, 2004.

Smith, Raymond A. and Patricia D. Siplon. Drugs into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006.

City of Philadelphia, Department of Public Health, AIDS Activities Coordinating Office. Data and Research. http://www.phila.gov/health/aaco/aacodataresearch.html

The AIDS Library and the Scott Wilds Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University, Samuel L. Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk, Philadelphia.

ACT-UP Philadelphia Collection and BEBASHI newsletter collection, John J. Wilcox LGBT Archives of Philadelphia, William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce Street, Philadelphia.

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This poster is important because it talks about Doctors in Philadelphia diagnosing a disease called AIDS. in September 1981, just months after the centers for disease control first reported mysterious outbreaks of pneumocystis pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma among gay men in New York and Los Angeles that marked the beginning of the recognized AIDS epidemic in the Unite

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Life and Times of the people in Philadelphia in 1793

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This infographic is important because it shows how people lived in Philadelphia while the fever was spreading, it shows what rules they have and talks about the book Fever 1793 and it tells that the book was realistic. This relates to our book because it shows how the people got the disease (by mosquitoes) and in the beginning of the book a mosquito was flying around Mattie and that was a foreshadow.

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The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits 100 on October 11, 1793. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead.

Yellow fever, or American plague as it was known at the time, is a viral disease that begins with fever and muscle pain. Next, victims often become jaundiced (hence, the term "yellow" fever), as their liver and kidneys cease to function normally. Some of the afflicted then suffer even worse symptoms. Famous early American Cotton Mather described it as "turning yellow then vomiting and bleeding every way." Internal bleeding in the digestive tract causes bloody vomit. Many victims become delirious before dying.

The first yellow fever outbreaks in the United States occurred in late 1690s. Nearly 100 years later, in the late summer of 1793, refugees from a yellow fever epidemic in the Caribbean fled to Philadelphia. Within weeks, people throughout the city were experiencing symptoms. By the middle of October, 100 people were dying from the virus every day. Caring for the victims so strained public services that the local city government collapsed. Philadelphia was also the seat of the United States government at the time, but federal authorities simply evacuated the city in face of the raging epidemic.

Eventually, a cold front eliminated Philadelphia's mosquito population and the death toll fell to 20 per day by October 26. Today, a vaccine prevents yellow fever in much of the world, though thousands of people still die every year from the disease.

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The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits 100 on October 11, 1793. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead. Yellow fever, or American plague as it was known at the time, is a viral disease that begins with fever and muscle pain.

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This is an excerpt on what exactly happened during the Yellow Fever event. It has some information on yellow fever and how people got it back then and how now it is rare to get yellow fever. This except also shows how dangerous the yellow fever is and how a lot of people die if the get yellow fever.
By: Ava Natelli

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defonition of yellow fever - Google Search

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van der graaf generator -Cat's Eye - Yellow Fever

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The reason why this is important is because it describes and compares about a cats eye and yellow fever on a humans eye.

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This is important because people might not know what the definition or meaning for yellow fever.

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yellow fever outbreak continues in africa - cnn

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Yellow fever outbreak continues in Africa

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The WHO maintains that a yellow fever outbreak is still serious although not a public health emergency. A mass vaccination campaign continues.

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This is important because it can show what people have to live with when they have yellow fever. In the video it shows what yellow fever has to do when they do have yellow fever.