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Author Price, Polly J., author.

Title Plagues in the nation : how epidemics shaped America / Polly J. Price.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  614.4 PRICE    Check Shelf
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Description xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents America's first plagues -- Yellow fever and the shotgun quarantine -- Black death on the west coast -- The 1918 great influenza -- Confronting tuberculosis -- The fight against polio -- The AIDS epidemic -- Ebola in Dallas -- A coronavirus pandemic -- Epilogue: law for the next pandemic.
Summary "Sheds light on the US government's response to epidemics through history--with larger conclusions about COVID-19 and reforms needed before the next plague"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-236) and index.
Subject Epidemics -- United States -- History.
Plague -- United States -- History.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- United States.
MEDICAL / Public Health.
COVID-19 (Disease) (OCoLC)fst01984643
Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
Plague. (OCoLC)fst01065045
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780807043493 (hardcover)
0807043494 (hardcover)
9780807043509 (ebook)
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