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Also Known As saffron scourge • Yellow Jack

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Billings, John Shaw
John Shaw Billings
American surgeon and librarian
Maass, Clara
Clara Maass
American nurse
Theiler, Max
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
William Crawford Gorgas.
William Crawford Gorgas
United States Army surgeon
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Carlos J. Finlay
Carlos J. Finlay
Cuban physician
Agramonte y Simoni, Aristides
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni
Cuban-American scientist
Jesse William Lazear
American physician

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