Fever Season

Author: Jeanette Keith
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1608192229
Category: Medical

Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City

While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. Download Fever Season medical books for free.
Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more than eighteen thousand people. The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was particularly hard hit: Of the approximately twenty thousand who didn't flee the city, seventeen thousand contracted the fever, and more than five thousand died-the equivalent of a million New Yorkers dying in an epidemic today.Fever Season chronicles the drama in Memphis from the outbreak in August until the disease ran its course in late October. The story that Jeanette Keith uncovered is a profound-and never more relevant- Get Fever Season our bestseller medical books.

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