Yellow Jack
Subtitle: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: March 29, 2005
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780471472612
First sentence: THE HOUSTON OIL AND GAS EXECUTIVE TOM MCCULLOUGH PRE-sented at a Corpus Christi, Texas, emergency room on March 10, 2002, complaining of abdominal pain, severe headache, and a high fever.
Description: Yellow Jack tracks the history of this deadly scourge from its earliest appearance in the Caribbean 350 years ago, telling the compelling story of a few extraordinarily brave souls who struggled to understand and eradicate yellow fever.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The forgotten scourge; title: Yellow fever comes to America; title: The capital under siege; title: Nothing but a yellow fever; title: Yellow fever moves south; title: The nation threatened; title: Yellow fever's odd couple; title: Walter Reed; title: Spanish bullets and yellow fever; title: The opportunity of a lifetime; title: "A soldier's chances"; title: Putting it all together; title: Affirmation; title: Presentation; title: Recognition; title: Historic application; title: Yellow fever after Walter Reed; title: Epilogue : After Cuba; title: Afterword : Yellow fever today