Stalking the Great Killer: Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis

by Joseph H. Bates M.D. and Larry C. Floyd

Imagine a time when a killer disease took lives at a rate rivaling Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, and continued that grim harvest year after year, decade after decade. Such a nightmare scenario played out in the state of Arkansas--and across the United States--throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, when the scourge of tuberculosis afflicted populations. Stalking the Great Killer is the gripping story of Arkansas's struggle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806194820
• ISBN13: 9780806194820
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"