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Walter Reed's Success With The Yellow Fever In The US
Because of Success [1] Walter Reed was a doctor, who graduated when he was barely eighteen. There was a disease called a yellow fever, that was going around so he decided he was going to find a cure for yellow fever. [6] Several Cuban soldiers die. [3] Abruptly, Walter found that mosquitoes carry yellow fever from person to person. [5] Since, this disease killed thousands of people, they went to where mosquitoes were hatching and killed them. Because of all Walter success with the yellow fever, The Walter Reed Medical Center, in Washington D.C. was named after him

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