TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nuwer,Deanne
TI  - Plague among the magnolias: the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi 
SN  - 9780817382445
AV  - RC211 .P534 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Yellow fever
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Yellow Fever
KW  - history
KW  - Public Health Practice
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - Disease Outbreaks
KW  - Disease outbreaks
KW  - Public health practice
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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