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yellow fever: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Yellow Jack • saffron scourge

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Maass, Clara
Clara Maass
American nurse
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John Shaw Billings
American surgeon and librarian
Max Theiler
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
William Crawford Gorgas.
William Crawford Gorgas
United States Army surgeon
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Carlos J. Finlay
Carlos J. Finlay
Cuban physician
Agramonte y Simoni, Aristides
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni
Cuban-born physician, pathologist, and bacteriologist
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Jesse William Lazear
American physician

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