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

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    • Crosby, Molly Caldwell

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

Molly Caldwell Crosby

Berkley Books, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index

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Contents of Works

  • I: The American plague
  • II: Memphis, 1878
  • Carnival
  • Bright canary yellow
  • The doctors
  • A city of corpses
  • The destroying angel
  • Greatly exaggerated
  • The Havana commission
  • Reparations
  • III: Cuba, 1900
  • 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
  • IV: United States, present day
  • Epidemic
  • A return to Africa
  • The vaccine
  • History repeats itself
  • Elmwood

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