March 13th marks five years since an emergency declaration was issued in 2020 for the unfolding COVID-19 outbreak. But it's far from the only deadly virus to impact the Port City over the years.
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It was named after a Mexican opera singer who died in a yellow fever epidemic that swept through the city in 1883. City residents are very proud of their 19th-century opera house, which was ...
Climate was an easy, low-cost product to sell in Arizona's early years, before rising temperatures changed the landscape's ...
Physicians who assured reporters there was “no such thing as thermal fever or sunstroke” were ... “The dilemma of 19th-century medicine was that traditional healing had little to offer ...
Historians believe the mosquito arrived in the New World on slave ships from Africa in the 17th century, bringing with it yellow fever ... mosquitoes in the early 19th century, birds in the ...
Most readers of Austen’s fiction feel instinctively that her heroines could not properly be united with anyone other than the ...
Gold fever was erupting across the United States in the mid-19th century. The side-wheel steamer SS George Law, later renamed the SS Central America, was built to move gold in continuous service on ...
Corsets. Kaftans. Crushed velvet. Period dramas didn’t just serve looks—they rewrote the rules. Fashion’s obsession with ...