The American Plague : The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History (Paperback)

from pennsylady

Read in May, 2013 Format Hardcover (edit) Review Molly Caldwell Crosby is a best-selling author and journalist. She lives in Memphis, Tenn with her family. In 2006, The American Plague was her debut book. The sub title is the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history. In ...

from Helcura

A fascinating account of yellow fever in the United States, Crosby begins with the catastrophic 1878 epidemic in Memphis, TN then follows Walter Reed and the brilliant scientists who proved that the fever was spread by mosquito. The writing style was smooth and interesting, without excessively dr...

from NielsenGW

Crosby's saga of the striped moqsuito and yellow fever is great medical non-fiction. Not for the squeamish (she writes of several cases of the disease, with full symptom-by-symptom playback), this book starts with the devastating 1878 Memphis outbreak and finishes with the creation of a vaccine i...

from LarrySouders

A very strong book concerning plague in nineteenth century America. A look at how the poor are forgotten in the time of panic and how the influential can escape the problems that the poor can not.

from LibraryCin

This book is split into three main parts. In the first part, it takes us through the yellow fever epidemic that hit Memphis, Tennessee in 1878. In the second part, it looks at the doctors who tried to figure out where yellow fever came from and how it spread, including the human volunteer experim...