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Richard Bayley, physician, died in 1801 of yellow fever caught while inspecting a ship that had arrived in New York City from Ireland. Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, Brazilean politician, diplomat and magistrate, died in 1856 in Rio de Janeiro, possibly of yellow fever, although the cause was never established.
J. W. Schull (1849 – July 30, 1876) was an American sailor who was the first victim—and believed source of—the yellow fever that struck the United States in the summer of 1876. In the six-week period following his infection, around 5,000 (18%) of the approximately 28,000 residents of Savannah, Georgia, had fled the city to escape the ...
William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854 – July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry these diseases, for which he used the discoveries made by the Cuban ...
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Clara Louise Maass was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to German immigrants Hedwig and Robert Maass. She was the oldest of ten children in a devout Lutheran family. [3] Clara's family was impoverished and to help alleviate the financial burden of one child on her family, she went to work as a "mother's helper" for a local woman while finishing high school after her family had failed in the ...
Max Theiler (30 January 1899 – 11 August 1972) was a South African-American virologist and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever in 1937, becoming the first African-born Nobel laureate.
He founded a successful carpentry business in Holly Springs in 1867, and his wife Lizzie became known as a "famous cook". [11] Ida B. Wells was one of their eight children, and she enrolled in Shaw University. [12] In September 1878, both of Ida's parents died during a yellow fever epidemic that also claimed one of her brothers. [13]
Carroll contracted yellow fever, experiencing symptoms such as a high fever, intense pain, and fatigue. Although he recovered, the illness left heart damage, leading to heart failure seven years later. Lazear died 17 days after the experiment began due to complications from yellow fever. The exact origin of Carroll’s yellow fever infection ...