Full Description
The terror of yellow fever conjures images of mass infection of soldiers during the Spanish-American War and horrific death tolls among workers on the Panama Canal. Medical science has never found a cure and the disease continues to present a threat to the modern world, both as a mosquito-borne epidemic and as a potential biological weapon. Drawing on firsthand accounts and contemporary sources, this book traces the history of the viral infection that has claimed countless victims across the United States, Central America and Africa, and of the global effort to combat this challenging and deadly disease.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgment
Preface
1. Yellow Fever: A Perspective
2. The Early Colonial Period
3. A Question of Quarantine
4. The American Plague
5. "Particulars of the Plague in Philadelphia"
6. Most Unhappy Consequences
7. The Controversies of Yellow Fever Continue to Rage
8. The "Great Epidemic" of 1798
9. Is Yellow Fever More Deadly Than the Plague?
10. The Repository of Knowledge
11. Daily Mortality Is Now More Considerable
12. The Baneful Effects of Yellow Fever
13. Corpses Still Animated: Yellow Fever, 1820-1829
14. "All the evils which hell may contain"
15. The "Dead Book"
16. New Orleans: A City of Desolation
17. "To the manor born"
18. The "Quarantine War" and the "Quarantine Armada"
19. Deluge of Yellow Fever in the South and Worldwide Epidemics
20. The American Un-Civil War Period, 1860-1866
21. Holding On Until the Other Jack (Frost) Says "Enough!"
22. I Am "writing from the city of the dead"
23. Quarantine and Avarice, 1870-1873
24. "Falling Like Leaves"
25. "The grim monster still on his pathway": The Outbreaks of 1878
26. "We are almost entirely ignorant"
27. Mosquitoes and Germ Theories
28. Panama and Nicaragua: Two Canals, Two Views
29. Cuba and the "Patriotic Disease"
30. After War: Science and Sanitation
31. Into the 20th Century
32. Panama!
33. "America to Slay the World's Disease Germs"
34. Taking Steps Against a Deadly Enemy
Glossary
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
