Plague among the magnolias : the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi / Deanne Stephens Nuwer.

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Nuwer, Deanne [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780817382445

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

RC211 .P534 2009

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Contents:

Yellow fever's causes, symptoms, and treatments -- The fever arrives -- Responses to yellow fever -- The human suffering -- Mississippi and the affirmation of antebellum values -- Yellow fever departs -- Conclusion.

Subject: Deanne Stephens Nuwer explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orleans newspapers reported the epidemic and upriver officials established checkpoints, but efforts at quarantine came too late. Yellow fever was developing by late July, and in August deaths were reported. With a fresh memory of an 1873 epidemic, thousands fled, some carrying the disease with them. The fever raged until mid-

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Mississippi in the 1870s -- Yellow fever's causes, symptoms, and treatments -- The fever arrives -- Responses to yellow fever -- The human suffering -- Mississippi and the affirmation of antebellum values -- Yellow fever departs -- Conclusion.

Deanne Stephens Nuwer explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orleans newspapers reported the epidemic and upriver officials established checkpoints, but efforts at quarantine came too late. Yellow fever was developing by late July, and in August deaths were reported. With a fresh memory of an 1873 epidemic, thousands fled, some carrying the disease with them. The fever raged until mid-

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