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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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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