Boston smallpox epidemic of 1721

Wann

Apr. 1721 – Dez. 1721

Art

Epidemie

Koordinaten

42.36° N, 71.06° W

Description

epidemic

Deaths

844

Cause

smallpox

Im Gebiet platziert, nicht an einem genauen Ort.

Disease outbreak in Boston, USA

In 1721, Boston experienced its worst outbreak of smallpox. 5,759 people out of around 10,600 in Boston were infected and 844 were recorded to have died between April 1721 and February 1722. The outbreak motivated Puritan minister Cotton Mather and physician Zabdiel Boylston to variolate hundreds of Bostonians as part of the Thirteen Colonies' earliest experiment with public inoculation.

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