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A Last Martyr of the Conquest of Yellow Fever

Authors: CHARLES S. BRYAN, MD

Abstract

The last of six Rockefeller Foundation investigators to die studying yellow fever was Theodore B. Hayne, 31 years old and recently married. He had returned to hazardous duty in West Africa knowing of the deaths of four other investigators within the previous 3 years.

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