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“Seen under the microscope, Stegomyia is a creature of striking beauty. Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a silvery-white lyre-shaped pattern; the abdomen is banded with silvery-white stripes and the six-jointed l

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“Yellow fever originated in Africa and in the 1500s travelled with the slave trade to the Americas. Epidemics soon became common in coastal communities of South and Central America and along the southern and eastern seaboard of North America

link to webpage excerpt: “Yellow fever is caused by a virus in the family Flaviviridae , and it is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The yellow fever virus most likely originated in Africa and arrived in the Western Hemisp

“Walter Reed (1851 – 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than by direct contact. This insigh

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William C. Gorgas Born in Toulminville, Alabama, Gorgas was the first of six children of Josiah Gorgas and Amelia Gayle Gorgas. After studying at The University of the South and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, Dr. Gorgas was appointed

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source excerpt: “Through the summer, disease of all kinds continued to cut through the ranks of the labor force. Yellow fever had abated somewhat, but only somewhat — 42 cases in July, 13 deaths; 27 cases in August, 9 deaths. But ma

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Letter of June 12, 1716

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