The secret of the yellow death : a true story of medical sleuthing / by Suzanne Jurmain.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2009.Description: 104 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780618965816 (hbk.)
  • 0618965815 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 614.5/41097291 22
LOC classification:
  • RC212.C9 J87 2009
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Book Book INES Library 614.5/41097291 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2011-222

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.

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