No wonder the New Orleans list of the Irish dead was so big... "New research by University of Warwick historian Dr Tim Lockley has found why yellow fever had a green bias [Irish] in 19th century fever outbreaks in the southern states of the US. Almost half of the 650 people killed by yellow fever in Savannah Georgia in 1854 were Irish immigrants." Read more at http://tinyurl.com/bo9ubq2 You escape the Famine and finally go to the US and then end up at the wrong port. Janet

Wonderfully informative! I have an American family living in Memphis Tenn who lost 6 members during the fall of 188? and when I looked up the death records there was page after page of "Yellow Fever", I didn't realize there was some immunity from yellow fever! My American family were Yankees and Yellow Fever didn't hit the north so much - although Philadelphia had epidemics frequently. Thank you Janet for this. Eliz On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Janet Crawford <reojan@gmail.com> wrote: > No wonder the New Orleans list of the Irish dead was so big... > > "New research by University of Warwick historian Dr Tim Lockley has > found why yellow fever had a green bias [Irish] in 19th century fever > outbreaks in the southern states of the US. Almost half of the 650 > people killed by yellow fever in Savannah Georgia in 1854 were Irish > immigrants." > > Read more at > > http://tinyurl.com/bo9ubq2 > > You escape the Famine and finally go to the US and then end up at the > wrong port. > > Janet > ****************************** > Topic: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in County Dublin, Ireland and the City of Dublin. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message