In hot and muggy New York City July 1795, mosquitos took control with their diseased bites that spread Yellow Fever for more than a decade.
A typist wearing a flu mask in New York City in October 1918. Photo from National Archive Ever since New York
On September 1, 1858 the NY Marine Hospital was burned down in a mob that stemmed from outrage about housing a quarantine hospital so close to their backyards.