Yearly Archives: 1901

1901 – Theory that yellow fever is transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito proved

Walter Reed proved Finlay’ s theory that yellow fever is transmitted by the  Aedes Aegypti mosquito.   In 1900 Reed was appointed head of an army board to investigate the causes of yellow fever, which had broken out among American troops in Cuba. In the United States yellow fever was an annual scourge; the disease swept…

1901 – Yellow fever and malaria controlled by mosquito control

The Yellow Fever Commission, founded as a consequence of excessive disease mortality during the Spanish–American War (1898), concluded that the best way to control the disease was to control the mosquito. William Gorgas successfully eradicated yellow fever from Havana by destroying larval breeding sites and this strategy of source reduction was then successfully used to…