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Session
T-3: Pestilence, Pandemic and Plague Walking Tour
Time:
Wednesday, 08/Jan/2025:
1:00pm - 3:00pm

Location: Unique NOLA Tours Shop

815 Toulouse St., New Orleans, LA 70112

Take a historic and strange tour of the squalid conditions of mass disease that New Orleans has encountered and hear inspiring tales of coping with filthy and four conditions.  Uncover how epidemics such as Yellow Fever, Cholera, and more have infected New Orleans' residents and how the city has recovered.  Learn about odd medical practices of long ago, including how voodoo and religion played a part in trying to contain the "uncontainable."

This tour will leave from the Unique NOLA Tours shop at 815 Toulouse St., New Orleans, LA 70112.