Yellow fever Quotes

17 quotes from 13 authors

When the mosquito‑borne virus ignited global panic, doctors, travelers, and writers recorded their thoughts. These 17 excerpts, drawn from 13 distinct voices, trace the medical breakthroughs, social upheavals, and personal reckonings that still echo today.

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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France…

John James Audubon

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Yellow fever outbreaks are not uncommon. But, as with other infectious diseases, when they occur in urban areas, they can play out…

Seth Berkley

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“Daisy offered a mosquito which bit you and gave you yellow fever. 'You turn as yellow as a lemon and then you…

Eva Ibbotson

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“Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is…

John Green

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“Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow…

Molly Caldwell Crosby

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“In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a…

Molly Caldwell Crosby

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The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000…

Ross Gelbspan

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“There are, Jefferson said, two classes of “disputants” that are especially common. The “first is . . . young students . .…

Davidson Butler

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If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see…

John Green

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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to…

John James Audubon

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“Death was a constant fact of life. The reaper struck with fire and drowning; typhus, malaria, yellow fever, and a host of…

Barbara Weisberg

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(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally…

Joris-Karl Huysmans

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Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved…

Robert Green Ingersoll

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“If you go to the Rijksmuseum, which I really wanted to do- but who are we kidding, neither of us can walk…

John Green

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“Born John Paul in Arbigland, Scotland on July 6, 1747, he started his seagoing career as an apprentice aboard the sail ship…

Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

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“With the first rays of dawn coming from a huge orange sun, rising out of the Indian Ocean from the East, the…

Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

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“Day an' night they set in a room with a checker-board on th' end iv a flour bar'l, an' study problems iv…

Finley Peter Dunne

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