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The American Plague

In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus.

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Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S.

capital, and altered the outcome of wars.

During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined.

In 1900, the U.S.

sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread.

There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies.

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Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby

Publisher: Berkley Trade

Date: Sep. 4, 2007

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