Fever 1793 - Book Reveiw

I don't have the actual book with me, but I'm trying my best.

Fever 1793 is a book of epic adventure and surviving through a plague. This book was written by Laurie Halse Anderson. It shows how much you can change because of this event. The plague was called the Yellow Fever, and it still exists today but can be taken care of better. It's spread by a certain type of female Mosquito.
In this book, it took place in 1793 where the fever started in august in Philadelphia. The main character was Matilda, and she changes a lot throughout the story. It must have been tough for her, seeing as her friend dies and she can't go to the funeral and her Grandpa dies in front of her eyes. Matilda goes through lots of hardships and problems, but always broke through because she kept trying. If I had been in the same situation, I'd probably never make it through. She had to live through nearly five months of barely any food, barely and company, dying people all around her and even going through the fever herself.
Imagine, a plague going around San Diego and nobody notices until thousands of people are dead. Imagine, if you were said to have the plague, your family kicked you out because of it. Imagine, a little kid's mother died from the plague and the kid was all alone. That's only just a few of the hardships that the plague could have caused. That plague had changed everybody's lives in Fever 1793.
The author may have had an experience of her own to relate to how Matilda felt and changed. She definitely was not alive during this time period, but she makes it seem real. The ever-tolling church bells, those people pushing the carts to the grave, the thousands of bodies buried in the park, the almost mindless grave diggers eternally digging pits for those bodies, the plague, everything made me feel like I was in the story.
From this occurrence, doctors hopefully learned that mercury, other chemicals and bleeding people will not heal them. We know how to cure the yellow fever - just like any other fever - you rest well and have some fresh air. They didn't have correct medicines or vaccines back then, so I'm pretty sure it will be easier curing it today.
Though if it had never happened in America and the plague had remained in South Africa (I think), who knows, maybe Philadelphia will still have remained the United States' capital.