Etiology of Yellow Fever

Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization

The US Army Yellow Fever Board was established to discover the etiology of yellow fever. In Cuba in 1900, the Board completed a series of classic experiments that showed the role of the mosquito in yellow fever transmission. Attending Private John Kissinger, who volunteered to be infected with yellow fever, are (from left) Major William C. Gorgas, the sanitation officer for Havana who would go ...

Yellow Fever Vaccination: An Issue for Non-endemic Tropical Countries

Experimental Studies on the Etiology of Typhus Fever

The typhus virus contained in the blood of guinea pigs at the height of the experimental disease remains infective for 31 days in collodion sacs placed within the abdominal cavity of guinea pigs.

Familial Mediterranean fever with onset at 66 years of age.

The patient was a 68-year-old woman who had experienced recurrent febrile episodes since 66 years of age. Despite various examinations and treatments, the etiology remained unclear. Further examinations following another referral failed to uncover the cause. Therefore, despite her age, it was presumed that she had familial Mediterranean fever. An analysis of the familial Mediterranean fever (ME...

The Mosquito Hypothetically Considered as an Agent in the Transmission of Yellow Fever Poison *

Mr. President and Gentlemten-Some years have now elapsed since I had the honor to communicate to you in this Academy the result of my alkali-metric experiments, through which, I believe, I have definitely demonstrated the excessive alcalinity' which characterizes the atmosphere of Havana. Some of the gentlemen now present will doubtless remember also the conjectural relations which, at that tim...

A Critical Analysis of the Etiology and Symptomatology of the Three-Day Fever of Chitral; and an Analogy between This Condition and Dengue Fever

In describing the three-day fever of Chitral,* I drew attention to the similarity of this condition to dengue, commenting on this fact as follows:?" The similarity of this disease to dengue, as far as the'single paroxysm is concerned, is sufficiently striking to cause some surprise at the absence of a rash and of terminal fever. I have already indicated how these are wanting, and without them i...