New York et Ebola: la ville a déjà vécu bien pire

Petit retour dans le temps sur le site de Mother Jones. Cinq épidémies dont les ravages furent particulièrement importants pour la ville. On mentionne la fièvre jaune, le choléra, la polio, la grippe (influenza) et le virus du sida.

 Un extrait de la portion sur la fièvre jaune:

 "The city's first health department was created in 1793 to block boats from Philadelphia, which at the time was in the grips of a yellow fever epidemic that left 5,000 dead. The tactic didn't work: By 1795 cases began to appear in Manhattan, and by 1798 the disease had reached epidemic proportions there, with 800 deaths that year. Several thousand more died over the next few years. (The disease causes victims' to vomit black bile and their skin to turn yellowish, and the fatality rate without treatment is as high as 50 percent.) This was no small blow for a city that at the time had only about 60,000 residents"

  http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/10/new-york-city-epidemics-worse-ebola