The Secret of the Yellow Death

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From 18th to 20th June 1900, a young foresighted doctor, Major Walter Reed, completed his travel tour which made him famous. Then he went to America from June 21 to 24. Sedgwick from New York to Cuba. Reed was looking forward to this journey for a long time but he wanted to do something that could "reduce human suffering", so initially he was released from seasickness as he stated Taka "I let you eat fish" I knew.

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

In a non-imaginary work that looks like an internal thriller, Jurmain gradually leads the readers to the work of these doctors. She started to test the possible causes of yellow fever in Cuba, showing how they set up the camp. Teams are difficult to progress; they do not seem to cause anything to test. Then they began to pay attention to mosquitoes. One of the doctors suffered from a potentially infected mosquito - he suffered from a serious illness. Lead worriedly said, "After a mosquito?", Lead's colleague Dr. Jesse Lazell became a guinea pig in his mosquito and yellow fever experiment and at the age of 34 for scientific knowledge Please sacrifice his life.

Jurmain brings life and life in 1900. The reader understands scientific experiments and evidence. Most importantly, they are watching how much the doctor sacrifices to understand the terrible diseases. The courage and tenacity of Lead and his colleagues constitute the pillar of an amazing story.

This book works well with Fever of Laurie Halse Anderson and An American Plague of Jim Murphy. That reminds us all, how exciting the story nonfiction is.

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

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