The secret of the yellow death
Subtitle: a true story of medical sleuthing
By: by Suzanne Jurmain
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780618965816
Description: Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find a way to eliminate the disease.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-101) and index.
Table of contents: title: Meeting the monster; title: "Feeding the fishes"; title: Plans; title: Going nowhere; title: The first clue?; title: Bugs; title: "I have no such thing"; title: Delirious?; title: "Did the mosquito do it?"; title: "Doctor, are you sick?"; title: Sorting it out; title: Problems; title: "We are doing it for medical science"; title: Testing times; title: More bugs; title: Celebration.