Web Site of the Week

Each week, we highlight a Web site that we think may be helpful in some way to teachers. The highlighted sites are not part of or connected with Science News for Kids, Science News, or Science Service. We are not responsible for their content.

Oct. 8, 2003

A Most Dreadful Pest

Yellow fever was a deadly scourge that had a devastating effect on lives and economies throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This engrossing Web exhibit features historical documents from the Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection at the University of Virginia. It focuses on the work of the Reed Commission, which proved that the Aedes aegypti mosquito was the vector for the yellow fever virus.

Go to: www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/yelfev/tabcon.html

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