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Yellow Fever Commission
US Army research team / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yellow Fever Commission was a research team of the United States Army which researched treatment for yellow fever.
The commission was originally formed as the Reed Commission by Army Surgeon General George Sternberg in 1900.[1] The medical research board was forged as a four member board consisting of Walter Reed, James Carroll, Jesse W. Lazear, and Aristides Agramonte. The U.S. Army research detachment was commissioned for public health surveillance regarding a tropical disease susceptible by the predatorial Aedes aegypti or an infectious mosquito in Cuba.[2][3] The mosquito-borne disease or yellow fever pathogen was found to have inflicted an elevated casualty count during the Spanish–American War.[4]
The research process itself became a focus of study for later generations.[5]
A United States nurse named Clara Maass and two Spanish immigrants were among those who died as a result of their research participation.[6]
Researchers mark the research of the Yellow Fever Commission as the origin of the model of modern consent in medical research.[7]