Epidemic: How Typhoid Devastated an American Town and How the Residents Fought Back

The dramatic account of a typhoid epidemic in Ithaca, New York, in 1903, and its dark underside—with lessons for today!

The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage. His legacy was a corpo...