Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary, written by Gail Jarrow, is about the typhoid fever that caused an epidemic that affected the whole of America, and even some parts of Europe. The story is told from many perspectives, like sanitation engineers that tried to find a cure for typhoid and typhoid victims. They find out many reasons for typhoid, but there were still unknown reasons. In the book, they find that the challenges they face include bad hygiene and typhoid carriers that didn’t even know they had it. As I read the book, I found how America changed its hygiene situations to prevent future illnesses/epidemics.

This notebook page is about one of the possible themes of the book that I noticed. The possible theme is that determination can bring great results.

Here, I sorted some of the causes and effects of typhoid and why typhoid spread so much. I noticed that sometimes, effects can also be causes for other situations.

This is a synthesis page of one of the central ideas that I noticed. The central idea was that hygiene was very bad, and that people didn’t really care about it.

In general, this book gave a lot of information about typhoid, and I really enjoyed it.