William Crawford Gorgas’s impressive career included his battles against yellow fever around the globe in the early twentieth century. He receives much of the credit for eliminating yellow fever in the Panama Canal zone and his family left a lasting legacy at my alma mater, the University of Alabama. His contributions to medical science are now largely forgotten, but military medical historian Carol R. Byerly’s new book, Mosquito Warrior, seeks to clarify the record. I reviewed the book for Alabama Writers’ Forum recently.
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