The American Plague Author:Molly Caldwell Crosby In 1648, a lone slave ship with infected mosquitoes brought a new virus to the New World. Victims suffered internal and external bleeding, even vomiting digested blood. The fever turned the body a brilliant gold, giving the virus its infamous name. Here, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evo... more »ke] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horrors-- and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus.« less