Dr. Joseph Hill White

May 4, 1859 - Feb 28, 1953

White is credited with the first mosquito eradication experiment in the face of a major yellow fever epidemic. Working as part of an Army Yellow Fever Commission headed by Dr. Walter Reed, he proved in 1900 that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquito. Dr. White's management of the 1905 New Orleans yellow fever epidemic provided incontrovertible proof that yellow fever could be prevented.

In 1893, he was sent to Hamburg to help rid certain countries of the cholera plague. In Hamburg, he worked to devise tests for carriers and for suspected material that may carry cholera, thereby allowing many emigrants and millions of dollars worth of goods to enter the U. S. Always his interest was in keeping diseases away from the shores of America.

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