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The American plague : the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crosby, Molly Caldwell
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berkley Books, 2006.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Yellow fever > History.
Yellow fever > Tennessee > Memphis > History.
Yellow Fever > history.
Communicable Disease Control > history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Cuba.
Tennessee.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Carnival
  • Bright canary yellow
  • The doctors
  • A city of corpses
  • The destroying angel
  • Greatly exaggerated
  • The Havana Commission
  • Reparations
  • A splendid little war
  • Siboney
  • An unlikely hero
  • A meeting of minds
  • The Yellow Fever Commission
  • Insects
  • Vivisection
  • Did the mosquito do it?
  • Guinea pig no. 1
  • Camp Lazear
  • A new century
  • Blood
  • The etiology of yellow fever
  • Retribution
  • The mosquito
  • Epidemic
  • A return to Africa
  • The vaccine
  • History repeats itself
  • Epilogue : Elmwood.