Yellow Fever on Galveston Island Ben Brashares the book begins by explaining

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But with the promise of a life-changing cure on the horizon

Jess plans to stay only until they get some answers

In this first-hand account

Yellow Fever on Galveston Island Ben Brashares the book begins by explainingJan Johnson provides a definitive account of Galveston's fight against outbreaks of Yellow Fever, which transformed an island paradise into the City of Dreadful Death. In the summer of Galveston's founding year, a mysterious malady accompanied by black vomit descended upon the inhabitants. Names for the devastating plague came quick and fast as the body count rose. Saffron Scourge. Bronze John. Yellow Jack. Yellow Fever. The disease's cause and cure