Topic: Yellow fever

The Yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793. Carriages rumbled through the streets to pick up the dying and the dead. Woodcut shows Stephen Girard on errand of mercy. (Getty Images / Bettmann / Contributor)

The 1793 pandemic that foreshadowed 2020

Matthew Rozsa
George Washington; the SARS-CoV-2 virus. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Washington handled a pandemic

Matthew Rozsa
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Invasive mosquitoes on the move

Harriet Blair Rowan - KFF Health News
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Stop fetishizing me

Paula Young Lee

Revelations of a plague year

Laura Miller