Yellow Fever 1793

REAL LIFE- Europe

Jan 10, 1700

Yellow fever spreds to Europe.

Matilda Cook is born

Jan 1, 1779

Matilda Cook lives in Philadelphia as an only child. Matilda also has an orange cat named Silas, and a parrot named King George. Matilda lives with her grandfather and mother above the family coffeehouse.

The construction of the family coffee house

Mar 3, 1783

Matilda’s father built the coffeehouse when Matilda was about four, and Matila's father died crudely two months after the coffee house/company opened. The coffee house was just off the corner of Seventh and High Streets. In the beginning they hardly gotten any customers, but soon, business jogged after G. Washington’s new house was built just about two blocks away from the coffee shop.

Polly dies

Aug 16, 1793

Matilda’s old friend Polly, and a waitresses at the family coffeehouse. Polly latter on caught caught Yellow Fever.

Mother gets sick with the Yellow Fever

Sep 2, 1793

Matilda and her grandfather were walking home, until they see a man dump a somewhat looked like a dead body at the family coffeehouse door. The body was actually Matilda's mother, and the mother is still alive sick and I'll. Matilda and her grandfather carry the mother into the bedroom and call a doctor who tells them that she does not have the fever. They baits her and let her rest every four hours hoping that would cure her.

Matilda leaves for Ludingtons home

Sep 7, 1793

After Matilda's mother gets ill, Matilda and her grandfather take a wagon with a woman, a man, and an young infant to the somewhat country to stay with a friend of Matilda's mother’s. When trying to pass the sectional border to another city, they are stopped to be checked for the fever. The doctor at the place said that Matilda's Grandfather has the fever. The woman infant, and man get tossed out of the wagon.

Matilda gets the yellow fever

Sep 12, 1793

Matilda somehow wakes up in a hospital with many other people with the fever. Matilda's nurse, Mrs. Flagg, helps her recover and getting strong by making sure Matilda is fed and given nutrition. while Matilda is still in the hospital, her Grandfather goes back to the house and finds Matilda's mother and then finds the house locked. Matilda and her grandfather assume she has gone to find them at the Ludingtons.

Matilda, this is Nell

Sep 27, 1793

After Matilda's grandfather was buried, Matilda walked around a somewhat deserted town looking for anybody she, or her mother, knew. During this walk, Matilda found a china doll with a laying outside a front house open door. Matilda then sees a young female child crying on the ground. The child, Nell, said to Mattie that her mother was somewhat “broken.”

Found

Sep 27, 1793

With Nell in Matilda's responsibility, Matilda walks more looking and or hoping to see anyone she knew. After a while later, Matilda finds the old cook at the family coffee shop, Eliza. Eliza takes Mattie and Nell back to her home and feeds them. Matilda then meets Mother Smith who cooks and takes care of the children, William and Robert, while Joseph gets better, and Eliza works.

Frost

Oct 23, 1793

Matilda and Eliza walk on the icy cold frost on the ground in the garden to try and make the fever go away. Matilda and Eliza work together to walk out in the cold to get rid of the germs.

One Found

Oct 24, 1793

Before Matilda was about to leave her home, she received a interesting painting from Nathaniel Benson. Their was a ransom note on the painting, and it told Matilda that he would be staying locked up with the Peale family until the fever had long gone away. Matilda doses see Nathaniel after that. The morning that the Penile Colony opens up Matilda saw him. They talked and talked and became friends again.

Thanksgiving

Nov 22, 1793

Eliza suggests a Thanksgiving dinner to celebrate hopefully the end of the fever. they invite Joseph and his sons along with Mother Smith, and Nathaniel and Nell. At dinner Matilda said she will be reopening the family coffee shop, and she asked Eliza to be her business partner.

REAL LIFE-How it started

Sep 10, 1800

Scientists start to believe that the yellow fever was spred by by direct contact with infected indivisuials or contaminated objects.

REAL LIFE-How it spred

Sep 10, 1900

The Reed Yellow Fever commition provided that the yellow fever infection is transmitted to humans by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

REAL LIFE- Outbreak

Sep 10, 1905

Annuial outbreak in the United States accured in New Orlans

REAL LIFE- vaccines

Sep 10, 1930

Two yellow fever vaccines were developed, the 17D vaccine and the French neurotrophic vaccine.