Word: aegypti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Leonard Wood, original commander of the Rough Riders, moved up to govern Cuba, and in 90 days stamped out the Aëdes aegypti mosquito, freeing Havana of yellow fever for the first time in 140 years. Four years after the U.S. marched in, it marched...
...been conquered, and it has not been eliminated as a permanent threat to the U.S." U.S. public-health officers, who thought they had closed the book on yellow fever long ago, are being warned not to take recent U.S. immunity for granted. Town-dwelling mosquitoes, Aëdes aegypti, which carry the virus, are found in a continuous belt reaching from El Salvador through Mexico and into much of the U.S. Most of the U.S. South (all the territory below a line drawn from Yuma, Ariz, to the northeast corner of New Mexico and across the continent to where Virginia...
...vaccinated (because the vaccine cannot stand heat, and refrigeration is impossible in the wilds of Central America). But last year's outbreak in Trinidad showed how easily the disease can leap from jungle to town. Army medics point out that the southern U.S., swarming with Aêdes aegypti and unvaccinated people, would be a prime target for bacteriological warfare with yellow-fever virus. But so far the U.S. is the only country in the Americas that is doing nothing to get rid of its aegypti...
...would be more than a century before the mosquito Aëdes aegypti was pinned down by Walter Reed as the carrier of yellow fever. But even many of Rush's medical contemporaries knew that his cure was fantastically wrong. Yet diligent Dr. Rush was soon prescribing it for everyone who became ill from whatever cause, soon came to believe that all fevers were one fever and that one yellow fever. There can be no doubt that Rush killed many sufferers with his stupendous purges, and with bloodletting that often took more than half the patient's blood...