Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly 200 million. The full scale of the epidemic and the tentative, troubled southern response to...

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Main Author: Ellis, John H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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