The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our Nation

The American Plague: The Untold Story of

📁 The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History

✍ Molly Caldwell Crosby 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Berkley Trade 🌐 English

In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, qua

An American Plague: The True and Terrify

📁 An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

📂 Fiction 📅 2003 🏛 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . . In a powerful, dramatic narrative, critically acclaimed author Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on

An American Plague: The True and Terrify

📁 An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

An American Plague: The True and Terrify

📁 An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

✍ Jim Murphy 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Clarion Books 🌐 English

1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . . In a powerful, dramatic narrative, critically acclaimed author Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on

Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Sha

📁 Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America

✍ Polly J. Price 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Beacon Press 🌐 English

Sheds light on the US government’s response to epidemics through history—with larger conclusions about COVID-19 and reforms needed before the next plague. In this narrative history of the US through major outbreaks of contagious disease, from yellow fever to the Spanish flu

Plague Among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yel

📁 Plague Among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi

✍ Deanne Stephens Nuwer 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 The University of Alabama Press 🌐 English

Deanne Stephens Nuwer explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orleans newspapers reported