
Fatal fever
By Gail Jarrow
Subjects: Juvenile literature, Fever, Student activities, Fever, juvenile literature, Creative activities and seat work, Typhoid fever
Description: 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. Gripping text and photographs tell the 1907 true story of the woman who unwittingly spread deadly bacteria, the epidemiologist who discovered her trail of infection, and the health department that decided her fate.
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