From the Children's Health Department!  (of Ralston Purina Co., 1927)

Just the first paragraph is a gem:
Inside that room there are whispers -- tiptoes -- tear-stained cheeks.  ... Danger Days have come.

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My previous Yellow Fever posts bring me to this point: Epidemic disease to sell vodka?  Not so awesome, Smirnoff.  :S

Smirnoff, 1971


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The causal connection of mosquitos/yellow fever was established by army medical doctor Walter Reed (for whom the medical center is named) and his Cuban associate Carlos Finlay only in 1900, by means of experiments on soldiers dying of the disease in Cuba (and Panama, where the canal project claimed an incredible number of lives.

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In one of the stories I wrote, yellow fever played a key role; specifically, the yellow fever epidemics of the 1870s, which nearly wiped Memphis, Tennessee off the map.  It wasn't until nearly the end of the 19th century that anyone even knew how it was transmitted, or that mosquitos were the vector, so it was truly a hideous plague.  I highly ( Read more... )

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