Fatal fever : tracking down Typhoid Mary / Gail Jarrow.
2015
RA644.T8 J37 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Fatal fever : tracking down Typhoid Mary / Gail Jarrow.
Author
Jarrow, Gail, author.
ISBN
9781620915974
1620915979
9780605939066
0605939063
1620915979
9780605939066
0605939063
Published
Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, [2015]
Language
English
Description
175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Call Number
RA644.T8 J37 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
614.5/112
Summary
Chronicles the story of the early 1900s typhoid fever epidemic in New York, providing details as to how its infamous carrier was ultimately tracked down and stopped.-- (Source of description not identified).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index.
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Table of Contents
Hidden
Germ detective
Death in Ithaca
"An enemy that moves in the dark"
Mysterious outbreak
A threat to the city
Pursuit
Inside the white walls
"The most dangerous woman in America"
Into thin air
Island exile
The rest of the story.
Germ detective
Death in Ithaca
"An enemy that moves in the dark"
Mysterious outbreak
A threat to the city
Pursuit
Inside the white walls
"The most dangerous woman in America"
Into thin air
Island exile
The rest of the story.