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 is a viral illness spread to humans through the Aedes aegypti mosquito, a type of mosquito that thrives in subtropical and tropical areas of Africa and South America. The virus is spread from primate (monkey or human) to primate through infected mosquitos.