Yellow Fever The Scourge Revealed

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Yellow Fever The Scourge Revealed
CAPT Stanton E. Cope, PhD United States Navy
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Dr. Benjamin Rush
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USS Maine Explodes
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Walter Reed Birthplace Virginia
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Dr. James Carroll - 1901
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Dr. Aristides Agramonte - 1902
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Dr. Jesse W. Lazear
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Goals of the Reed Board

• Nature of Bacillus icteroides
• Perform bacteriological studies
• Explore the theory of insect transmission

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Dr. Carlos Finlay
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Walter Reeds Laboratory - 1900
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Carter
Rockefeller Yellow Fever Commission 1916-1918
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Mosquito-feeding Method
Carroll
Lazear
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Lazear Death Notice
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Camp Lazear
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PVT Kissinger
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PVT John Kissinger
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Fomite House
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Letter From Reed to Truby
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Partition
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Reed
Moran
Non-Immunes
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Reed Board Conclusions 1 - 4
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Reed Board Conclusions 5 - 8
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Reed Board Conclusions 9 - 11

• The spread of yellow fever can be most
  effectually controlled
• by measures directed to the destruction of
  mosquitoes..

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22 Total Cases Under Controlled Conditions
Mosquito Bite 14 Blood Injection 6
Filtered Serum - 2
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Walter Reed
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He gave to man control over that dreadful
scourge....
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Panama Canal
Dr. William Gorgas -- 1920
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John Kissingers Signature
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PVT John Kissinger
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..... A martyr to yellow fever
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..swept away a hideous plague