The American Plague
the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history
Tennessee, history
Communicable Disease Control
Yellow fever
Public health, united states
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Geschichte
New York Times reviewed
History
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, quar…
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