You should eat the below foods. 1  fish. 2  shellfish. 3  eggs. 4  dairy. 5  oats. 6  sesame seeds. 7  bananas. 8  avocados. 9  almonds. 10  squash.
A+E Networks. 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.
Foreign occupiers were particularly susceptible: an estimated 16,000 Spanish troops died from yellow fever between 1895 and 1898. At the onset of war with the United States, illness had decimated the Spanish fighting force, with 55,000 troops out of an army of 230,000 healthy enough to fight.