Open Database Connectivity. In computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing database management systems (DBMS). The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of database systems and operating systems.
The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits 100 on this day in 1793. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead. Yellow fever, or American plague as it was known at the time, is a viral disease that begins with fever and muscle pain.
Yellow Fever Facts and History. 1  Yellow fever is a viral hemorrhagic infection transmitted by mosquitoes of the Aedes genus. 2  Yellow fever has and continues to affect the equatorial tropics and is believed to have been imported to the Americas with the West African slave trade.