Pathogens & People: Yellow fever: Long forgotten, but not gone

Capital (Annapolis) | June 3, 2007| | Copyright

The latest news about Walter Reed Army Medical Center is that it will close in 2011: a little more than a century after it was named for Army Major Walter Reed. Reed has been dead for more than 100 years, having died from surgical complications just two years after solving the riddle of yellow fever in Cuba.

As with Teddy Roosevelt's charge up San Juan Hill, Reed's conquest of yellow fever in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War is now part history and part myth. If few remember the particulars of Reed's work, fewer still remember much about yellow fever. And that can be fatal.

Five years ...

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