Walter Reed received his medical degree | | that mosquitos carried yellow fever. |
Reed and his wife had two children | | served as the lone doctor in an outpost. |
Reed joined the army because | | and adopted an Indian girl. |
For sixteen years he | | died of yellow fever. |
At one time he was looking after | | made possible the building of the Panama Canal. |
When he studied at Johns Hopkins Hospital | | died of typhoid fever. |
In the outpost many soldiers | | by the time he was 18 years old. |
Many people became sick because they | | spraying the water with chemicals. |
90,000 people in the United States | | they allowed him to study for seven months. |
After his experiments he concluded | | did not observe sanitary conditions. |
They got rid of mosquitos by | | several hundred Indians. |
His work in stopping the spread of yellow fever | | he thought he could advance further. |