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.