I couldn't help but to post this article from Fayette County Texas in 1867. In LaGrange, the Yellow Fever outbreak caused 20 percent mortality rates with similar rates posted in Houston to New Orleans. We really have it better in comparison to our ancestors in the 19th century. I hope the link works.

http://www.fayettecountyhistory.org/la_grange_yellow_fever.htm

Had to take the yellow fever vaccine when I went to Brazil a couple years ago.

I remember it giving me slight flu like symptoms for a few days after taking it

Reading the list of names of victims and one stood out. A 3 year old that was accidentally given poison instead of medicine. Multiple entire families or most of the families. Terrible.

Curious what the result would have been with today's medical capabilities.

My great X 2 grandfather was a ships captain during the times of Yellow fever. He had settled the family in Point Isabel, and had 3 children. Upon returning from about a 4 or 5 month sailing to various places, he arrived and learned that 2 of his children and wife had died of Yellow Fever. This was sometime around 1840.

It devastated him, and he left the area. Luckily he did remarry and have two other daughters, from which my line of the family descended.

Yellow Jack was a vile scrounge.

No question, OP. My grandfather lost two siblings as toddlers to diphtheria, and the people we inherited our family farm from lost both of their kids at the age of 16, one to typhoid and one to bacterial meningitis.

There was a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793 that killed about 10% of the entire city's population at that time. The epidemic made entire federal government, including George Washington, flee the city which was the US capitol at the time.

I think smallpox had really high mortality rates as well.

Capitol Ag said:

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Reading the list of names of victims and one stood out. A 3 year old that was accidentally given poison instead of medicine. Multiple entire families or most of the families. Terrible.

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I wonder which president it would have been that recommended she take poison....