CONQUERORS OF YELLOW FEVER: Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay, Unsung Hero

From: The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education | Date: June 3, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

U.S. political and military leaders became alarmed as increasing numbers of soldiers fell ill with an often deadly disease known as yellow fever. The occasion was the U.S. occupation of Cuba after the Spanish-American War. With every war since, soldiers have had to contend not only with the threat of bullets but also diseases that are often foreign to them.

Yellow fever, which caused nausea, jaundice, diarrhea, high fever, and blood in the vomit and stool of its victims, was drastically curtailed after researchers discovered that mosquitoes carried yellow fever, transmitting it through their ...

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