Cristina Bianchi Bianchi itibaren Bakshi, West Bengal 711303, India
Who knew? I guess as a newcomer to the US I should have found this out before but I always thought of Yellow fever as an African or at least tropical disease. Well written story about the last great Yellow Fever outbreak in the US in 1878 as well as the fight against the disease in American and also Cuba during the American-Spanish conflict. The tale of how the source was tracked down is particularly interesting and amazing what reasearch they had to do - fatal research sometimes. The science is a little questionable. There is an implication that the virus is in some way trying to evolve and outwit human intervention and it is annoying to have it couched in those terms. That is a minor quibble as this is a history rather than a scientific evaluation.