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Yellow Fever and the South
Yellow Fever and the South by Margaret Humphreys
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Excerpt - on Page 39: " ... Proponents of the mosquito theory knew that it was not enough merely to recount the experi- mental procedure followed and the conclusive results obtained. They ... "

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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Excerpt - on Page 125: " ... and his wife at their home in Cuba. "Mabel," Lazear proclaimed, "I have another convert. Major Reed also believes the mosquito theory. ... "

Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets
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Excerpt - on Page 79: " ... was aware of it. Beauperthuy published his work in a Venezuelan medical journal in May 1854, and he presented his mosquito theory at an April 1856 meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. ... "

Plagues and Poxes: The Impact of Human History on Epidemic Disease
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Excerpt - on Page 40: " ... that the mosquito theory was ridiculous and that malaria was in fact caused by "bad air," as its name implied. They complained that the ... "

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