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How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead' : NPR

Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis." The gruesome disease killed thousands, scapegoated immigrants and upheld white supremacy.

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