Deadly disease trilogy
Author
Author
Series
Deadly disease trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America's South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks this disease, commonly known as pellagra, and highlights how doctors, scientists, and public health officials finally defeated it. Illustrated with 100...
Author
Series
Deadly disease trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of the early 1900s typhoid fever epidemic in New York, providing details as to how its infamous carrier was ultimately tracked down and stopped.
Author
Series
Deadly disease trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In March 1900, San Francisco's health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world's deadliest diseases. But how could that be possible? Bubonic Panic tells the true story of America's first plague epidemic--the public health doctors who desperately fought to end it, the political leaders who tried to keep it hidden, and the brave scientists who uncovered the plague's secrets....