Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization
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The US Army Yellow Fever Board was established to discover the etiology of yellow fever. In Cuba in 1900, the Board completed a series of classic experiments that showed the role of the mosquito in yellow fever transmission. Attending Private John Kissinger, who volunteered to be infected with yellow fever, are (from left) Major William C. Gorgas, the sanitation officer for Havana who would go on to rid Havana of yellow fever; Contract Surgeon Dr. Aristides Agramonte; Dr. Carlos J. Finlay, a Cuban physician and an early believer in the mosquito’s role in yellow fever; Contract Surgeon Dr. James Carroll; and Major Walter Reed, the president of the Yellow Fever Board. Missing from this painting is Dr. Jesse Lazear, also a member of the Board, who contracted yellow fever while conducting experiments and died.
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