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Traces the impact on American history of yellow fever from the mid-seventeenth century onward, examining in particular the near-destruction of Memphis from the disease and the efforts of four men to combat the deadly scourge.
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
Mar 01, 2021, Tantor and Blackstone Publishing
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
Dec 05, 2017, Tantor Audio
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
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The American Plague
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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The American plague: the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history
2006, Berkley Books
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
November 7, 2006, Berkley Hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index
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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, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined.In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country-and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With "arresting tales of heroism," it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
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