Title: The American plague : the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history /
Authors: Crosby, Molly Caldwell.
Publisher: Berkley Books,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Communicable Disease Control; Yellow Fever; History, 20th Century; History, 19th Century; Communicable Disease Control history; Yellow Fever history; Yellow fever History.; Yellow fever Tennessee Memphis History.; Communicable Disease Control history Tennessee.; Communicable Disease Control history United States.; History, 19th Century Tennessee.; History, 19th Century United States.; History, 20th Century Tennessee.; History, 20th Century United States.; Yellow Fever Tennessee History.; Yellow Fever United States History.; Communicable Disease Control Tennessee History.; Communicable Disease Control United States History.; United States; Tennessee; Cuba; United States; Tennessee; Cuba
Abstract: 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.
Contents: pt. 1. The American Plague -- pt. 2. Memphis, 1878: Carnival ; Bright canary yellow ; The doctors ; A city of corpses ; The destroying angel ; Greatly exaggerated ; The Havana Commission ; Reparations -- pt. 3. 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 -- pt. 4. United States, Present Day: Epidemic ; A return to Africa ; The vaccine ; History repeats itself ; Epilogue : Elmwood.