Historical Fiction Tessa W.

A girl who gets sent into the country because her mother doesn’t want her to get yellow fever. Yellow fever is a nasty disease that spreads very quickly. It is from misquotes.

Matilda lives with her mom, grandfather, sister, and maid. There has been yellow fever going around. Polly her best friend, just died from it. Matilda is so very sad.

Matilda has a sister named Polly. She also has a mother and her mother believes she has a sleeping disease because she never gets up when she calls her.

Matilda’s grandfather came up with all these rules for yellow fever and she didn’t want to hear it because her friend died of yellow fever. Matilda started to get tears in her eyes and wanted to leave but she didn’t want to die herself so she stayed in the house.

Everybody kept going on about yellow fever. The people say they found a cure but they say none of them are available, but then it came a ship load of sick people came. It was just to dangerous for anybody to be around anybody except their family. They are having trouble getting food because Matilda’s family was to scared that they would get yellow fever they just didn’t want to risk it buying it from the store.

Yellow Fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease. This disease may be mild to severe. Some symptoms include fever, nausea, vomiting, headache, abdominal and muscle pains. More severe symptoms include hepatitis.

In Philadelphia of 1793 5,000 people died out of 45,000 population, of yellow fever.

There were comparatively few cases of yellow fever during the Civil War. Peacetime brought a boom of trade as improved rail service and shipping allowed people and goods -- as well as disease, to travel easily in the united nation. By 1878, conditions were ripe for a powerful epidemic of yellow fever in the Mississippi Valley.