Fatal fever
Subtitle: tracking down Typhoid Mary
By: Gail Jarrow
Publisher: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781620915974
Subjects: Typhoid fever; Juvenile literature
Description: Chronicles the story of the early 1900s typhoid fever epidemic in New York, providing details as to how its infamous carrier was ultimately tracked down and stopped.

Gripping text and photographs tell the 1907 true story of the woman who unwittingly spread deadly bacteria, the epidemiologist who discovered her trail of infection, and the health department that decided her fate.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Accelerated Reader MG 7.4 5 5 172583