Walter Reed
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"Walter Reed", Doctor of Medicine/M.D., was a United States Army/U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that postulated and confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species, rather than by direct contact. This insight gave impetus to the new fields of epidemiology and biomedicine, and most immediately allowed the resumption and completion of work on the Panama Canal (1904–1914) by the United States. Reed followed work started by Carlos Finlay and directed by George Miller Sternberg ("first U.S. bacteriologist").

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Specimens of morbid anatomy ... together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed.

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I feel very lucky just to be here today.

If it happens, it happens, ... We can't stop living.

If I'm watching television and the cable goes out, I tell myself, 'OK, I'll read a book. Family matters, not possessions.'

We are not seeing a lot of action out of Augusta at all. We do have our local problems, but Augusta is at the root of most of them.

We'll take it from here.