Plant Museum looks back at what role so-called “yellow journalism” may have had in pushing the United States into war against Spain in 1898. “Stop the Presses! Fake News and the War of 1898 ...

Foreign occupiers were particularly susceptible: an estimated 16,000 Spanish troops died from yellow fever between 1895 and 1898. At the onset of war with the United States, illness had decimated ...

8. Cuba; Summer 1898; hundreds dead Disease killed more than five times as many American soldiers as enemy bullets during the Spanish-American war; yellow fever was among the culprits, and its ...

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