The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History - Molly Caldwell Crosby

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History - Molly Caldwell Crosby (2006)

Author’s Note

PROLOGUE. A House Boarded Shut

Part I. The American Plague

Part II. Memphis, 1878

Chapter 1. Carnival

Chapter 2. Bright Canary Yellow

Chapter 3. The Doctors

Chapter 4. A City of Corpses

Chapter 5. The Destroying Angel

Chapter 6. Greatly Exaggerated

Chapter 7. The Havana Commission

Chapter 8. Reparations

Part III. Cuba, 1900

Chapter 9. A Splendid Little War

Chapter 10. Siboney

Chapter 11. An Unlikely Hero

Chapter 12. A Meeting of Minds

Chapter 13. The Yellow Fever Commission

Chapter 14. Insects

Chapter 15. Vivisection

Chapter 16. Did the Mosquito Do It?

Chapter 17. Guinea Pig No. 1

Chapter 18. Camp Lazear

Chapter 19. A New Century

Chapter 20. Blood

Chapter 21. The Etiology of Yellow Fever

Chapter 22. Retribution

Chapter 23. The Mosquito

Part IV. United States, Present Day

Chapter 24. Epidemic

Chapter 25. A Return to Africa

Chapter 26. The Vaccine

Chapter 27. History Repeats Itself

EPILOGUE. Elmwood

Notes

Selected Bibliography