Suppression of Yellow Fever
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Science, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Biology, Biologists, Doctors, Physicians, Nurses, Epidemics, Diseases
- Curriculum: Latin American History, American History 1878-1900
- Geographical Location: Cuba, West Indies, Central America, Panama
- Date: 1900-1904
Article abstract: Discovery that the disease is transmitted by mosquito is the key to sanitation and eradication.
Summary of Event
For more than two hundred years, yellow fever, originating in tropical America, had devastated the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. In the epidemic of 1878, more than four thousand people died of yellow fever in New Orleans alone. In 1898, after the Spaniards had lost the Spanish-American War and left Cuba, the United States adopted the objective of eradicating yellow fever from the island. Because physicians in...
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