The Deadly Puzzle of Yellow Fever (Replay)

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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HISTORY This Week returns with new episodes starting September 16th! In the meantime, listen to a favorite classic from the archives. August 27, 1900. Dr. Jesse Lazear, a U.S. Army surgeon, walks into Las Animas Hospital Yellow Fever ward in Havana, Cuba, toting a brood of mosquitos. He has the system down: remove the cotton stopper that keeps the mosquito penned in its glass vial, turn the vial over, and seal it against a consenting infected patient’s skin. Chasing the source of Yellow Fever, scientists try to understand this deadly plague by running a high-stakes medical experiment on human subjects. But today, those subjects will include themselves. Why did ordinary people—and the doctors running the experiment—willingly and knowingly consent to take part in this study? And when we look back, should we be horrified... or impressed? Special thanks to our guests: Dr. Kathryn Olivarius of Stanford University and author of, Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom, as well as Molly Crosby author of, The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever the Epidemic That Shaped Our History. This episode originally aired on August 22, 2022. To stay updated: historythisweekpodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History Channel, Original Podcast.
0:03.0	Hey everyone, Sally here, and I have very good news.
0:07.0	History this week is coming back.
0:09.0	We'll have new episodes for you starting September 16th,
0:12.0	but in the meantime, we are sharing one of our
0:14.1	favorite classic episodes from the History This Week vault. And if you want to get the
0:18.7	latest updates from our team sign up at History This Week podcast.com. In the meantime, enjoy the show.
0:25.2	History this week, August 27, 1900.
0:31.6	I'm Sally Helm. Dr. Jesse Lassir is walking around this morning,
0:38.0	Dr. Jesse Lizzir is walking around this morning
0:41.0	toting his little brood of mosquitoes, each buzzing around
0:46.5	in their own glass vial. Before lunch, he takes them to Las Anima's Hospital in Havana, Cuba.
0:54.0	There he pulls the vials out, and one by one,
0:58.1	he lets the mosquitoes feed.
1:01.9	These patients have agreed to be bitten by mosquitoes.
1:05.0	This is all part of a plan.
1:07.0	Dr. Lazir is stationed in Cuba as a US Army doctor.
1:12.0	Because disease has been killing soldiers left and right.
1:17.0	Yellow Fever.
1:20.0	And no one knows what causes it.
1:24.0	These patients at Los Angeles Hospital have yellow fever.
1:28.0	And Dr. Lassir wants his mosquitoes full of their blood
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