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Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again
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Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again Hardcover - 2006

by James L. Dickerson

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Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo. pp. 9 271
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  • Title Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again
  • Author James L. Dickerson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 271
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Prometheus Books, Amherst
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 195464
  • ISBN 9781591023999 / 1591023998
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.85 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.16 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Communicable Diseases, Emerging, Yellow fever - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005038055
  • Dewey Decimal Code 614.541

From the publisher

James L. Dickerson, an award-winning journalist and a former social worker, has published twenty nonfiction books and numerous health-related articles for magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Omni. His books include Dixie's Dirty Secret, an investigative account of civil rights abuses in the 1950s and 1960s.

Media reviews

"Using personal tales, diary extracts and anecdotes, [Dickerson] paints a vivid picture of the full horrors of a disease that struck indiscriminately....he has written personal accounts of the great US epidemics and humanity’s fight to overcome the virus....this slender volume makes pleasant reading."
Times Literary Supplement

"[A] well-written history of the yellow fever epidemics that ravaged Philadelphia, New Orleans and other locales from the late 1700s through the 19th century....As interesting as the medical tale are the social aspects, such as the role of the city's blacks, who believed they were immune to yellow fever, in treating its victims....Dickerson suggests that yellow fever is a prime candidate for use as a biological weapon, and he considers disturbing evidence that global warming could bring a resurgence of the virus in North America."
Publishers Weekly

About the author

James L. Dickerson, an award-winning journalist and a former social worker, has published twenty nonfiction books and numerous health-related articles for magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Omni. His books include Dixie's Dirty Secret, an investigative account of civil rights abuses in the 1950s and 1960s.