The secret of the yellow death :
Jurmain, Suzanne.
The secret of the yellow death : a true story of medical sleuthing / by Suzanne Jurmain. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2009. - 104 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-101) and index.
Meeting the monster -- "Feeding the fishes" -- Plans -- Going nowhere -- The first clue? -- Bugs -- "I have no such thing" -- Delirious? -- "Did the mosquito do it?" -- "Doctor, are you sick?"-- Sorting it out -- Problems -- "We are doing it for medical science" -- Testing times -- More bugs -- Celebration.
Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find a way to eliminate the disease.
9780618965816 (hbk.) 0618965815 (hbk.)
2009022499
Yellow fever--Diagnosis--Cuba--Juvenile literature.
Yellow fever--Juvenile literature.
Yellow fever.
Yellow Fever--history--Juvenile Literature
Yellow Fever--etiology--Juvenile Literature
Juvenile Literature
RC212.C9 / J87 2009
614.5/41097291
The secret of the yellow death : a true story of medical sleuthing / by Suzanne Jurmain. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2009. - 104 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-101) and index.
Meeting the monster -- "Feeding the fishes" -- Plans -- Going nowhere -- The first clue? -- Bugs -- "I have no such thing" -- Delirious? -- "Did the mosquito do it?" -- "Doctor, are you sick?"-- Sorting it out -- Problems -- "We are doing it for medical science" -- Testing times -- More bugs -- Celebration.
Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find a way to eliminate the disease.
9780618965816 (hbk.) 0618965815 (hbk.)
2009022499
Yellow fever--Diagnosis--Cuba--Juvenile literature.
Yellow fever--Juvenile literature.
Yellow fever.
Yellow Fever--history--Juvenile Literature
Yellow Fever--etiology--Juvenile Literature
Juvenile Literature
RC212.C9 / J87 2009
614.5/41097291