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The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Khaled J. Bloom
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-01-01 - Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

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"Bloom's skillfully crafted analysis provides a fascinating perspective on the nineteenth century's confused response to a terrifying malady, illuminating the p
Yellow Fever & Public Health in the New South
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: John Hubert Ellis
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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Recounts the public terror at the 1878 epidemic of yellow fever-- previously unknown--that spread from New Orleans to Memphis, and the public health movement th
Plague Among the Magnolias
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Deanne Stephens Nuwer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-15 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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Plague Among the Magnolias explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi.
Fever Season
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Jeanette Keith
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-02 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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An account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact
The American Plague
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Molly Caldwell Crosby
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-04 - Publisher: Penguin

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In this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horror