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It is a mortal form of sleeping sickness which , like yellow fever and malaria , is transmitted by a flying carrier like the mosquito.24 Bunau - Varilla suspected that one of his private secretaries died of this disorder , and not of ...
It is a mortal form of sleeping sickness which , like yellow fever and malaria , is transmitted by a flying carrier like the mosquito.24 Bunau - Varilla suspected that one of his private secretaries died of this disorder , and not of ...
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As early as 1871 , he turned his attention to the mosquito as the possible cause of yellow fever and malaria . Ten years later , in 1881 , Finlay formulated his mosquito theory and correctly zeroed in on a carrier of yellow fever ...
As early as 1871 , he turned his attention to the mosquito as the possible cause of yellow fever and malaria . Ten years later , in 1881 , Finlay formulated his mosquito theory and correctly zeroed in on a carrier of yellow fever ...
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There are two variants of yellow fever : one is labeled urban , which is transmitted from person to person by " sedentary " or city - wise mosquitoes , particularly the aedes aegypti . The other is the jungle type , which is ...
There are two variants of yellow fever : one is labeled urban , which is transmitted from person to person by " sedentary " or city - wise mosquitoes , particularly the aedes aegypti . The other is the jungle type , which is ...
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Contents
BunauVarillas Last Campaigns | 299 |
Appendix 1 | 335 |
Appendix 3 | 349 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Philippe Bunau-Varilla, the Man Behind the Panama Canal |
| Author | G. A. Anguizola |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Nelson-Hall, 1980 |
| Original from | University of Texas |
| Digitized | 12 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0882293974, 9780882293974 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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