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Gorgas and the Mosquito Battle That Shaped Panama
In the early 1900s Col. William C. Gorgas led sanitation efforts to defeat yellow fever by controlling the stegomyia mosquito in Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone. Despite skepticism, the 1905 epidemic underscored the need for vector control, elevating Gorgas to assistant surgeon general and shaping the canal project.
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Col
William C. Gorgas
William Gorgas
Mobile
Ala
University of the South
Army Medical Corps
Cuba
U. S. Medical Corps
Walter Reed
Maj. Gorgas
United States
Panama Canal
Culebra
Col. Gorgas
Reed
James Carroll
Jesse Lazear
Aristides Agramonte
Carroll
Lazear