In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined. In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country-and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With "arresting tales of heroism,"** it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
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一百五十年前，蚊子传播的病毒，黄热病，所有的情况进展跟现实那么相似。一百五十年后，这段历史是不是也会看起来如此愚昧遥远……
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评分一百五十年前，蚊子传播的病毒，黄热病，所有的情况进展跟现实那么相似。一百五十年后，这段历史是不是也会看起来如此愚昧遥远……
评分一百五十年前，蚊子传播的病毒，黄热病，所有的情况进展跟现实那么相似。一百五十年后，这段历史是不是也会看起来如此愚昧遥远……
评分一百五十年前，蚊子传播的病毒，黄热病，所有的情况进展跟现实那么相似。一百五十年后，这段历史是不是也会看起来如此愚昧遥远……
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