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Season 19, Episode 05 The Great Fever

S19 E05

Oct 30, 2006
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American Experience

The Great Fever

Release Date: Oct 30, 2006
Episode Description

The history of yellow fever, and how it was determined that the disease was transmitted by mosquitoes. Included: the work of Carlos Finlay, the Cuban physician who found the link to the insects; how Finlay's theory influenced Jesse Lazear and James Carroll, scientists who were part of Walter Reed's team after Reed was sent by the U.S. to Havana to find the cause of the disease when American troops were sent to Cuba following the Spanish-American War.

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