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Fatal fever : tracking down Typhoid Mary / Gail Jarrow.

Jarrow, Gail, (author.).

Summary:

Chronicles the story of the early 1900s typhoid fever epidemic in New York, providing details as to how its infamous carrier was ultimately tracked down and stopped.-- (Source of description not identified).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781620915974
  • ISBN: 1620915979
  • ISBN: 9780605939066
  • ISBN: 0605939063
  • ISBN: 9780545927574
  • ISBN: 0545927579
  • Physical Description: 175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, [2015]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher and pagination may vary.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Hidden -- Germ detective -- Death in Ithaca -- "An enemy that moves in the dark" -- Mysterious outbreak -- A threat to the city -- Pursuit -- Inside the white walls -- "The most dangerous woman in America" -- Into thin air -- Island exile -- The rest of the story.
Target Audience Note:
1010L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader 7.4.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 5.0 172583.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 5 172583.
Subject: Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938 > Juvenile literature.
Typhoid fever > Juvenile literature.
Genre: Juvenile works.
Literature.

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  • 148 of 151 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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