The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever

At the stroke of noon on New Year's Day, 1899, the Spanish flag on the Governor-General's palace in Havana was lowered and the Stars and Stripes went up. Officially, the Spanish-American War was over. But for the soldiers of the medical corps in charge of the health of the American occupation

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forces, the "fighting" had just begun. For lurking on rooftops, in narrow alleyways, and in a thousand dark corners of the city was Yellow Jack, an enemy far mightier than Spain...

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