It wasn’t Covid-19. It was yellow fever, the epidemic of 1878 that killed more than 20,000 people across the South. Nowhere was the threat, and federal response, more critical than today’s Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge.
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It wasn’t Covid-19. It was yellow fever, the epidemic of 1878 that killed more than 20,000 people across the South. Nowhere was the threat, and federal response, more critical than today’s Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge.
