TY - BOOK ID - 80836357 TI - Plague among the magnolias PY - 2009 SN - 9780817382445 0817382445 9780817316532 0817316531 PB - Tuscaloosa DB - UniCat KW - Public Health Practice KW - History, 19th Century KW - Disease Outbreaks KW - Yellow Fever KW - Yellow fever KW - Arbovirus infections KW - Flaviviral diseases KW - Fever, Yellow KW - Fevers, Yellow KW - Yellow Fevers KW - Infectious Disease Outbreaks KW - Outbreaks KW - Disease Outbreak KW - Disease Outbreak, Infectious KW - Disease Outbreaks, Infectious KW - Infectious Disease Outbreak KW - Outbreak, Disease KW - Outbreak, Infectious Disease KW - Outbreaks, Disease KW - Outbreaks, Infectious Disease KW - 19th Cent. History (Medicine) KW - 19th Cent. History of Medicine KW - 19th Cent. Medicine KW - Historical Events, 19th Century KW - History of Medicine, 19th Cent. KW - History, Nineteenth Century KW - Medical History, 19th Cent. KW - Medicine, 19th Cent. KW - 19th Century History KW - 19th Cent. Histories (Medicine) KW - 19th Century Histories KW - Cent. Histories, 19th (Medicine) KW - Cent. History, 19th (Medicine) KW - Century Histories, 19th KW - Century Histories, Nineteenth KW - Century History, 19th KW - Century History, Nineteenth KW - Histories, 19th Cent. (Medicine) KW - Histories, 19th Century KW - Histories, Nineteenth Century KW - History, 19th Cent. (Medicine) KW - Nineteenth Century Histories KW - Nineteenth Century History KW - Health Practice, Public KW - Health Practices, Public KW - Practice, Public Health KW - Practices, Public Health KW - Public Health Practices KW - history KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80836357 AB - 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 the epidemic and upriver officials established checkpoints, but efforts at quarantine came too late. Yellow fever was developing by late July, and in August deaths were reported. With a fresh memory of an 1873 epidemic, thousands fled, some carrying the disease with them. The fever raged until mid- ER -