RESPONSE TO SHELDON WATTS, "YELLOW FEVER IMMUNITIES IN WEST AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS IN THE AGE OF SLAVERY AND BEYOND: A REAPPRAISAL".(in this journal page 955)

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In a review of Sheldon Watts Epidemics and History (which he cites in note 6) I complained, among other things, about words and phrases that were employed such as "guerilla terrorists" to describe Spanish conquistadors, as well as other unwarranted epithets to denigrate medical researchers of the past like Ronald Ross or Walter Reed. At the time I assumed that such deliberately offensive writing stemmed from the author's passion in blaming the West for the epidemiological and medical imperialism it had (often inadvertently) unleashed on the rest of the world. Now, however, I am ...

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