1900

Army Surgeon General George Sternberg sends Walter Reed’s Yellow Fever Commission off to Cuba (Altman, 129-131, 137ff.), where three of the four physician members (Agramonte was considered immune), deciding to test Carlos Finlay’s theory of mosquito transmission, agreed on self-experimentation (Carroll, Reed, and Lazear) on the night of 3 August. Reed, having agreed to the pledge, immediately returned to Washington (Altman, 143).