New Orleans Disease History Walking Tour

Infectious outbreaks have plagued New Orleans for centuries, and if you're a bit curious about the strange history of our city, you'll want to look no further than our relationship with disease.
We'll take you on a historic and strange tour of the squalid conditions of mass disease that New Orleans has encountered. As well, we'll tell inspiring tales of coping with filthy and foul conditions.

Walk with us to uncover how epidemics such as Yellow Fever, Cholera, and more have infected our inhabitants and how our resilient city recovered. We'll talk about odd medical practices of long ago, including how voodoo and religion played a part in trying to contain the "uncontainable."

Included in the tour is a walk through the French Quarter to see where it all went down.

Meeting Point

815 Toulouse St

815 Toulouse St, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA

Meet at the Unique NOLA Tours shop

What's included:

• Professional Guide

What to expect:

Duration: 2 hours

New Orleans Pharmacy Museum

514 Chartres St, , New Orleans, 70130-2110, Louisiana

We'll go into the history of strange ways the medical field approached various pandemics.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Jackson Square

751 Decatur St, , New Orleans, 70181, Louisiana

The center of the French Quarter has a lot of history with pandemics and other disease.

20 minutes

French Quarter

New Orleans, Louisiana

Visit various stops across the French Quarter important to historic and recent pandemics and plague.

1 hour, 20 minutes