Fatal fever :

Jarrow, Gail,

Fatal fever : tracking down Typhoid Mary / Gail Jarrow. - First edition. - 175 pages : color illustrations, color photographs ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hidden -- Germ detective -- Death in Ithaca -- "An enemy that moves in the dark" -- Mysterious outbreak -- A threat to the city -- Pursuit -- Inside the while walls -- "The most dangerous woman in America" -- Into thin air -- Island exile -- The rest of the story.

Junior Library Guild

New York City, 1906: An epidemiologist suspected Mary Mallon, a cook, of spreading typhoid. An asymptomatic carrier, Mary refused to be tested - until forced by the police.

10-13. 5-8. 1010L Lexile.



A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)

9781620915974 (library binding) : $16.50

2014948476


Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938 --Juvenile literature.


Typhoid fever--Juvenile literature.
Public health--United States--Juvenile literature.
Epidemics--History--Juvenile literature.


United States--History--1901-1953--Juvenile literature.

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