yellow fever

Chronicles the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1900, exploring how the disease spread and the lasting impact the epidemic had on American history.

During the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878, twelve-year-old Eli and Addie, a young child he befriends, struggle to survive with the help of Addie's ghost-mother and a girl who works at the busy graveyard.

During the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878, twelve-year-old Eli and Addie, a young child he befriends, struggle to survive with the help of Addie's ghost-mother and a girl who works at the busy graveyard.

Discusses the symptoms, transmission, history, vaccine, and research associated with yellow fever, a viral disease, covering future prospects for preventing its spread and controlling it in areas with limited health care, such as parts of Africa and South America.

An affluent black family fights against illness and death when a terrible outbreak of yellow fever strikes New Orleans in the summer of 1853.

Volunteering with her friend Cecile at a crowded New Orleans orphanage during the yellow fever epidemic of 1853, Marie-Grace discovers that it is not just the orphans who need help.

Encouraged by her friend Marie-Grace, Cecile finds a way to help her beloved city, New Orleans, in the aftermath of the 1853 yellow fever epidemic.

Explores the relationship between mosquitoes and disease, discussing the outbreak of West Nile virus in New York in 1999, and other instances of mosquito-related epidemics in history; and looks at some of the other disease spread by mosquitoes, with information about their diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.