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Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets
ISBN: 978-0-471-47261-2
Hardcover
288 pages
March 2005
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Preface.

Introduction: The Forgotten Scourge.

1. Yellow Fever Comes to America.

2. The Capital Under Siege.

3. Nothing but a Yellow Fever.

4. Yellow Fever Moves South.

5. The Nation Threatened.

6. Yellow Fever’s Odd Couple.

7. Walter Reed.

8. Spanish Bullets and Yellow Fever.

9. The Opportunity of a Lifetime.

10. “A Soldier’s Chances”.

11. Putting It All Together.

12. Affirmation.

13. Presentation.

14. Recognition.

15. Historic Application.

16. Yellow Fever after Walter Reed.

Epilogue: After Cuba.

Afterword: Yellow Fever Today.

Acknowledgments.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.