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Yellow Fever

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Fred Lowe Soper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 359
Abstract Dr. Fred Soper joined the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1920 and engaged in the hookworm campaigns in Brazil and Paraguay (1920-1927). From 1927-1942 he was Regional Director of the IHD, at Rio de Janeiro, and was active in the study and control of yellow fever and malaria. Dr. Soper was Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau for three terms (1947-1959). The collection contains an extensive file of publications, notes, and other data relating to yellow...
Dates: 1919-1975

J. Austin Kerr letter : TLS, Chevy Chase, Maryland, to Ramon Cordoba Palacio, Medellin, Colombia

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 456
Abstract

Reminiscence of J. Austin Kerr's activities with yellow fever for the Rockefeller Foundation in Colombia during the 1930s.

Dates: 1974