TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy, Jim
AU  - Watts, Trish Parcell
TI  - An American plague: The true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 
SN  - 9780439693899
AV  - RA644.Y4 
U1  - 614.541097481109033 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - disease
KW  - Non-fiction
KW  - Philadelphia
N1  - Z
; 1130
; Lexile
; Z
; Raz-Plus

N2  - It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. This powerful dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. An American Plague offers a fascinating glimpse into the conditions in American cities at the time of our nation's birth while drawing thought-provoking parallels to modern-day epidemics
ER  -