This raucous carnival really defines New Orleans! Beginning with a masked ball on the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6, celebrations build to fever pitch during five days of pre-Lenten parties.
This raucous carnival really defines New Orleans! Beginning with a masked ball on the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6, celebrations build to fever pitch during five days of pre-Lenten parties.
This raucous carnival really defines New Orleans! Beginning with a masked ball on the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6, celebrations build to fever pitch during five days of pre-Lenten parties.
Eek! This is how an 18th-century artist depicted fever and ague in an age when today's cures didn't exist. The doctor on the right writes prescriptions to try to keep the monsters at bay.
Eek! This is how an 18th-century artist depicted fever and ague in an age when today's cures didn't exist. The doctor on the right writes prescriptions to try to keep the monsters at bay.
Eek! This is how an 18th-century artist depicted fever and ague in an age when today's cures didn't exist. The doctor on the right writes prescriptions to try to keep the monsters at bay.
Eek! This is how an 18th-century artist depicted fever and ague in an age when today's cures didn't exist. The doctor on the right writes prescriptions to try to keep the monsters at bay.
Eek! This is how an 18th-century artist depicted fever and ague in an age when today's cures didn't exist. The doctor on the right writes prescriptions to try to keep the monsters at bay.
Mosquitoes carry diseases like yellow fever, dengue fever, West Nile virus and malaria. In Africa they are estimated to have infected 700 million people.