C4 News Alternative Booker: Victoria Macdonald on Fever
383 views · Published 16 October 2013 · 2:33 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Channel 4 News · 2013 · News & Politics
It is fitting that our health correspondent has picked a medical mystery as book of the year: Mary Beth Keane's Fever is about "typhoid Mary", who had no symptoms herself, but was still accused of spreading the disease.
More from this channel
-
5:35
History behind the rescue
-
1:48
Rescue operation underway as floods hit Cornwall
-
5:08
A great writer but what makes Burns such a hero?
-
5:18
Veteran US diplomat Richard Holbrooke dies
-
3:33
Tributes to badly burned WWII veteran
-
2:51
Flu cases in intensive care double
-
3:45
'800 dead' in Ivory Coast violence
-
3:58
Nick Clegg talks tuition fees and NHS with Jon Snow