THE SECRET OF THE YELLOW DEATH

In much of the bloody details, Jurmain remembered when Dr. Walter Reed of Cuba and his doctor's team decided that the mosquito was yellow fever in 1900. Hazardous experiment narrowed their attention and eliminated other theories about the origin of disease, but at the expense of young doctor's death. Even passive readers respond to the horrible explanation of sick and brave volunteers wearing garments with vomit at high temperature of 100 degrees to see if yellow fever can spread through the fabric To do. ) A citation from a doctor's letter followed by a report from another participant makes the story more direct through interactive writing with questions and doubts. On almost every page of the two-page spread page, there are black and white photos such as players, their accessories, artifacts, and mosquito pictures are not scattered everywhere. This and the popular, 1793 (2000), Laurie Halse Anderson and American pestilence (2003), Jim Murphy, both recommended that they "read more" to complete a powerful exploration of the disease causing 100,000 . A US citizen was killed. 1800 years (Appendix, Glossary, Endnote, References, Index [not posted]) (Non fiction, 12 or more)

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.

Yellow fever is caused by viruses. Yellow fever virus is a single-stranded RNA virus belonging to flavivirus genus. After the virus diffuses, it proliferates in the local lymph nodes and then diffuses through the bloodstream. In addition to other organs, this widespread epidemic affects bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes, kidneys, and liver. For example, tissue damage to the liver can cause jaundice, damage the body's coagulation mechanism, and sometimes cause hemorrhagic complications of yellow fever. Yellow fever spreads to humans stabbed by infected mosquitoes