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1. owlcation.com › humanities › Dr-Walter-Reed-and-theDr. Walter Reed and the Eradication of Yellow Fever - Owlcation

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   Apr 22, 2024 · Dr. Walter Reed was a frontier doctor of the 19th century who was key to ending the spread of yellow fever and confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than by direct contact.

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3. untappedcities.com › 2021/07/14 › yellow-feverThe Yellow Fever Epidemics That Plagued New York City

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   1 day ago · Around 730 people died of yellow fever that first summer. This disease, which causes symptoms of fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting and fatigue, would plague New York City for almost a ...

4. www.britannica.com › biography › Clara-MaassClara Maass | Medical Pioneer, Yellow Fever Research ...

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   Apr 24, 2024 · Such had been Reed’s experience during his classic demonstration that yellow fever is spread exclusively by the mosquito. On August 14, 1901, Maass allowed herself to be bitten by an infected Stegomyia fasciata mosquito (later renamed Aedes aegypti). Contrary to expectations, however, Maass came down with a severe fever and died 10 days later.

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   What was the cause of the New York City yellow fever epidemic?

   • It is in this same hot and muggy New York City July that the mosquitos took control of the city with their bites no one suspected as a vector for disease. The spark of the New York City yellow fever epidemic was the arrival of the disease in Philadelphia in the summer of 1793.

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   What was Reed's theory of yellow fever?

   • The theory of the experiment was that, given prompt hospital care under controlled conditions, a mild case of yellow fever would ensue and the victim would recover, immune thereafter. Such had been Reed’s experience during his classic demonstration that yellow fever is spread exclusively by the mosquito.

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   How many people died of yellow fever in 1795?

   • When summer 1795 arrived, yellow fever cases came with it as well. Around 730 people died of yellow fever that first summer. This disease, which causes symptoms of fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting and fatigue, would plague New York City for almost a decade.

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6. www.passporthealthglobal.com › 2024 › 04Yellow Fever Infections Over 400 Years: Then and Now

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   Apr 17, 2024 · Yellow fever became a large problem in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the active slave trade between West Africa and the Americas imported the disease into the Western Hemisphere. Settlers in the colonies were not immune to the disease, and common symptoms of fever, muscular aches and vomiting struck the population hard.

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   May 1, 2024 · Based on work of Walter Reed, it is demonstrated that Yellow Fever is caused by a filterable virus transmitted by mosquitoes. The agent is similar to that reported in 1898 by Loffler and Frosch for foot and mouth disease of cattle.

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8. thepoliticswatcher.com › pages › articlesThe Army Doctor Who Conquered Yellow Fever in Panama

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   Apr 16, 2024 · Born on this day in 1851, Walter Reed proved the theory that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever to human beings. At the turn of the 20th Century, US researchers in Cuba made the historic discovery that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. Army Maj. Walter Reed's contributions to medicine were many.

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   Apr 24, 2024 · Catholic priests Father Isidore Quemerais and Father Louis Gergaud were two of the heroes of the 1873 Yellow Fever Epidemic that wiped out a quarter of Shreveport’s population. These...