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2. New York City; July-October 1795; 730 dead New York City, which in 1793 had turned away refugees from the epidemic in Philadelphia, suffered its own epidemic two summers later. 3. Boston ...

Past epidemics may offer some insight into what ... Smallpox reached Massachusetts in 1633, brought by settlers from France, Great Britain and the Netherlands. It quickly spread to the Native ...

It was also the site of the most fearsome epidemic to strike the young nation. Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the city's most prominent physicians and a signer of the Declaration of Independence ...

"It's been a great collaboration between UConn and Washington ... Rittenhouse's experiment created a series of ranavirus epidemics in the experimental frog population to better understand how ...