Word: stegomyia
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...Stegomyia) aegypti, the yellow-fever mosquito. Its heroes are the men who braved mosquito bite to find an effective yellow-fever cure...
...Wood (Jonathan Hale), Major William Crawford Gorgas (Henry O'Neill) and the commission headed by Major Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) in their long fight against the yellow peril. It makes no bones about pointing out that the eventually accepted solution, i.e., that the disease was spread by the Stegomyia mosquito, was something that a Havana physician, Dr. Carlos Finlay, had been saying in vain for 19 years. And it stamps as matter-of-fact, unassuming heroes the young doctor (Henry Hull) who died and the five volunteers who risked their lives to test the Finlay theory...
...hospital was named in honor of Major Walter Reed (1851-1902), Army Surgeon, who was dispatched to Cuba in June, 1900, to learn the causes of yellow fever ("yellow jack") and whose discovery that the disease was transmitted by Stegomyia calopus (mosquito) paved the way for the slaying of that "yellow dragon" and the construction of the Panama Canal. Major Reed died of appendicitis, is buried at Arlington. To the place named for him are taken men hurt and broken in the nation's service. Wives of Army men travel thousands of miles to bear their children there, with...
...Army Commission of the U. S., which in 1900 went into Cuba determined to clear up the mystery of yellow fever. They submitted their bodies to the bite of infected mosquitoes and established beyond dispute that yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes of the species Stegomyia fasciata. But the commission was unable to identify the germ. Since then there have been many attempts, many false alarms. Researcher Noguchi's Leptospira icteroides has received scientific support; has come closest to being accepted as the organism responsible for yellow fever. Survivor Agramonte was never satisfied with...
Noguchi discovered that American yellow fever was caused by a tiny organism which he named Leptospira icteroides; was carried by a common lady mosquito, Stegomyia calopus; that guinea pigs could be infected with the organism; that the mosquito would carry the infection from one animal to another ; that a horse serum could be prepared that would cure the disease if administered shortly after the infection. These facts known, the disease was conquered. The same process must be applied to West Africa. For over two years a Com mission of the Rockefeller Foundation has been at work on the problem...