Plague among the Magnolias : the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi /
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...
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Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
The University Alabama Press,
2015.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |