AWhat changed
Yellow-fever transmission shifted from competing conjectures toward an experimentally discriminated vector mechanism.
Scientific scope
The four-author 1900 preliminary note and commission work; Finlay's hypothesis, later control campaigns and ethical judgment are separate.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. This is the four-author 1900 preliminary note and commission work. Carlos Finlay’s earlier mosquito hypothesis is retained as precursor context. Human-subject ethics require separate historical assessment.
Contributors
- Walter Reed · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- James Carroll · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Aristides Agramonte · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Jesse W. Lazear · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Wellcome Collection: The etiology of yellow fever, preliminary note (1900)
- U.S. Government report on the Yellow-Fever Commission
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