All posts tagged "epidemics"

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  Maine

  Island Castaways, New England’s Huddled Masses Yearning to Get Well

  Island castaways don’t have it easy. Just ask Robinson Crusoe. Yet, for centuries, medical and political authorities relied on the general inaccessibility...

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  New Hampshire

  The Great Throat Distemper of 1735

  In 1735, a young child in Kingston, N.H., came down with a cold and all of New England would get sick. The...

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  Connecticut

  The 1918 Flu Epidemic Kills Thousands in New England

  As World War I raged in Europe, New Englanders died at home from a foe more deadly than bullets: the 1918 flu...