Meaning

1 senses
  1. (obsolete, uncountable)Yellow fever

Origin

The disease was believed to have spread through contagion from a ship, the Hankey, that ca

The disease was believed to have spread through contagion from a ship, the Hankey, that came from Bolama (then Bulam) in what is now Guinea-Bissau.

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