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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby
The American Plague by award-winning journalist Molly Caldwell Crosby is an up-close look at one of the deadliest of epidemics. It took more lives than the Chicago fire, San Francisco earthquake and Johnstown flood combined. Crosby's highly visual account relates arresting tales of illness and primitive treatment methods, as well as the heroism of nurses working in this quarantined "city of corpses." Though she focuses on the summer of 1878, Crosby also describes more recent outbreaks in Africa, where yellow fever is making a frightening comeback despite the existence of a vaccine. Called "frequently engrossing" by the New York Times Book Review and already a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Selection, The American Plague is for all readers who love the work of writers such as Dava Sobel or Simon Winchester.
