TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy, Jim
TI  - An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
SN  - 9780395776087
U1  - 614.541 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - .
PB  - ‎ Clarion Books
KW  - Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, James Madison Book Award, A National Book Award Finalist, Orbis Pictus Award, A Newbery Honor Book
KW  - Disastrous yellow fever epidemic
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Non-fiction
KW  - Pennsylvania History 1775-1865
KW  - Public health
KW  - Sickness
KW  - Yellow fever
KW  - Yellow fever Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 18th century
KW  - Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
KW  - Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
KW  - James Madison Book Award
KW  - Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Non-fiction for Children
KW  - A Newbery Honor Book
N2  - It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. This powerful dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. An American Plague offers a fascinating glimpse into the conditions in American cities at the time of our nation's birth while drawing thought-provoking parallels to modern-day epidemics. History, science, politics, and public health come together in this dramatic account of the disastrous yellow fever epidemic that hit the nation's capital more than 200 years ago. Drawing on firsthand accounts, medical and non-medical, Murphy re-creates the fear and panic in the infected city, the social conditions that caused the disease to spread, and the arguments about causes and cures
ER  -