“The case which I reported on September 26, 1901, was really the last which occurred in Havana. Of course we did not know it at the time, but this case marked the first conquest of yellow fever in an endemic center; the first application of the mosquito theory to practical sanitary work in any disease.” SuccessMedicineGreat MenHeroesPublic HealthMosquitoesSanitationDisease ControlMedical HistoryVictoriesYellow FeverMalaria EradicationYellow Fever EradicationMosquito Eradication Book:Sanitation in Panama Source: Sanitation in Panama
“Aedes aegypti, which transmits yellow fever, is one of the feeblest species in its ability for flight and it is at once blown away and destroyed when it gets into a breeze. It therefore seldom wanders from the house in which it was bred.” Public HealthMosquitoesDisease ControlYellow FeverEradicationYellow Fever EradicationAedes AegyptiMosquito EradicationVector ControlChikungunyaDengueZikaWilliam Crawford GorgasTiger Mosquito Book:Sanitation in Panama Source: Sanitation in Panama
“The work directed against mosquitoes carrying yellow fever had an equally good effect upon malaria, especially when anti-anopheles work was extended to the suburbs of the city. Before the year 1901 Havana had yearly from 300 to 500 deaths from malaria, rising as high in 1898 as 1,900 deaths. Since 1901 there has been a steady decrease in the malaria death rate until 1912, when there were only four deaths. Four deaths from malaria in a city in the tropics the size of Havana, about 300,000 population, means the extinction of malaria in that city.” SuccessPublic HealthMosquitoesSanitationDisease ControlMedical HistoryMalaria EradicationTransformativeYellow Fever EradicationMosquito EradicationAnopheles Gambiae Book:Sanitation in Panama Source: Sanitation in Panama