Dustin Park

“Dead animals were routinely tossed into this soup, where everything decayed and sent up noxious bubbles to foul the air.”
― Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

“Washington was then president of the United States, and Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the young nation and the center of its federal government.”
― Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

“No one knew that a killer was already moving through their streets with them, an invisible stalker that would go house to house until it had touched everyone, rich or poor, in some terrible way.”
― Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

“Historians now estimate that as many as 20,000 people abandoned the city during the fever.”
― Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793