The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing

Level 6 - 10 - This medical puzzle is very interesting, easy to read, cycle pictures are well drawn. This is the story of Walter Reed and his team of US Army doctors who went to Cuba to study yellow fever in 1900 and decided how it spread out. This is important given the US participation in the war with Spain, the freedom of Cuba, and the future development of South America. The incidence of yellow fever, such as the occurrence of Philadelphia in 1793, has plagued the United States and its neighbors for a long time, but despite advances in bacteriology, discovering how the disease spreads There was no progress made in doing. Jurmain explains Reid's approach to scientific problems and how it changes over time. By using letters, reports, and other key materials, the individual physicians and volunteers involved will be vivid. The team finally discovered and confirmed that yellow fever combined with mosquitoes, luck, scientific customs, and careful recording combined. Young people who are interested in medicine and science discovery will make this book attractive like historical students. The final content involves brief biographical sketches of all the volunteers participating in the experiment and brings a serious danger to their lives. Exemplary nonfiction classes - Robin Henry, Wakeland High School, Frisco, Texas

The secret of yellow death: A real medical detective story, Suzanne Jurmain, introduces a lead trip to Cuba as a team of four physicians to locate the cause of yellow fever. Lead made as much preparation as possible for the trip and participated in several scientific theoretical tests. Cuban physician Carlos Finlay has been working on one of these for nearly 20 years: he believes yellow fever is caused by mosquitoes and caused by bites. Most scientists are silly about this idea; Lead think this is one of many possibilities

Over the first century since the end of the seventeenth century, sudden yellow fever occurred, causing death and panic in Philadelphia and all its surrounding areas. Because medicine seems to be helpless, yellow fever is a terrible and inexplicable threat to compare any disease of this age, thereby depriving of life and confusing society. Yellow fever is a flavivirus that spreads through humans through Aedes aegypti bites. Once introduced into a human host, the virus begins to replicate in lymph nodes. Early symptoms include pain, pain, fever, nausea and dizziness lasting for several days. In severe cases, the disease spreads to the liver, causing jaundice, spasm, and internal bleeding, the symptoms recover with new strength.

The secret of Suzanne Jurmain's yellow death is the length of 101 pages, there are about 50 photos and illustrations. The best is a picture of the actual chart called "fever chart" showing changes in the patient's body temperature during the recovery and recovery of yellow fever within 2 weeks (pages 42-32). Pictures of real agreements used to recruit human applicants for yellow fever research are equally good (p. 64). This book first grabs the reader and half of the page explains the symptoms of yellow fever. For any child, this lively story never makes people bore or dull ("His eyes look like lemon, sometimes he will cry or shout"). Method of yellow fever The doctor Walter Lead will travel to Cuba according to the instructions of the US government