Victims suffered from jaundice, high fever and black vomit ... But increased mobility in the period after the Civil War enabled the disease — through infected carriers — to travel farther ...
During the Civil War, the Union establishes blockades of southern ports, which reduces trade with the Caribbean and South America. Possibly as a result, yellow fever kills only 436 of the 233,786 ...
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv, 192. Illus., maps, appends, notes, biblio., index. $29.95. ISBN: 9780807135617 If any disease deserves ...