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While the North american South had harvested to anticipate a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the most severe ever. Upgrading the Mississippi River in the overdue summertime, in the span of only a couple of months the fever wiped out more than 18,000 people. The town of Memphis, Tennessee, was especially hard strike: Of the approximately 20,000 who didn't flee the city, 17,000 contracted the fever, and more than 5,000 died - the same as a million New Yorkers dying within an epidemic today. Fever Season chronicles the play in Memphis from the outbreak in August until the disease ran its course in overdue October. The story that Jeanette Keith uncovered is a serious - and never more relevant - profile of what sort of catastrophe influenced reactions both heroic and cowardly. Some ministers, politicians, and law enforcement fled their constituents, while prostitutes and the poor risked their lives to nurse the sick and tired. Using the stunning, anguished accounts and diaries of those who thought we would stay and the ones who were left behind, Fever Season depicts the happenings of that summertime and semester. In its internet pages we meet folks of great courage and compassion, a lot of whom died for having those virtues. We also understand how a tragedy can shape the future of a city.
