Includes bibliographical references and index.

Yellow Fever : A Perspective -- The Early Colonial Period -- A Question of Quarantine -- The American Plague -- "Particulars of the Plague in Philadelphia" -- Most Unhappy Consequences -- The Controversies of Yellow Fever Continue to Rage -- The "Great Epidemic" of 1798 -- Is Yellow Fever More Deadly Than the Plague? -- The Repository of Knowledge -- Daily Mortality Is Now More Considerable -- The Baneful Effects of Yellow Fever -- Corpses Still Animated : Yellow Fever, 1820/1829 -- "All the Evils Which Hell May Contain" -- The "Dead Book" -- New Orleans : A City of Desolation -- "To the Manor Born" -- The "Quarantine War" and the "Quarantine Armada" -- Deluge of Yellow Fever in the South and Worldwide Epidemics -- The American Un-Civil War Period, 1860/1866 -- Holding on Until the Other Jack (Frost) Says "Enough!" -- "I Am Writing from the City of the Dead" -- Quarantine and Avarice, 1870/1873 -- "Falling Like Leaves" -- "The Grim Monster Still on His Path" : The Outbreaks of 1878 -- "We Are Almost Entirely Ignorant" -- Mosquitoes and Germ Theories -- Panama and Nicaragua : Two Canals, Two Views -- Cuba and the "Patriotic Disease" -- After War : Science and Sanitation -- Into the 20th Century -- Panama! -- "America to Slay the World's Disease Germs" -- Taking Steps Against a Deadly Enemy -- Glossary.

"Drawing on firsthand accounts and contemporary sources, this book traces the history of the viral infection, yellow fever, that has claimed countless victims across the United States, Central America and Africa, and of the global effort to combat this challenging and deadly disease"--