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Did Walter Reed discover yellow fever?

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Did Walter Reed discover yellow fever?

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The disease itself, yellow fever, was known for hundreds of years before Walter Reed was even born. He did not discover or “find” the disease. Reed’s contribution (in the early 1900s) was to prove that yellow fever is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.