US General William Crawford Gorgas, a tropical medicine pioneer and native Alabamian, is credited with the elimination of yellow fever and malaria that allowed the Panama Canal to be built. For over ...

The speaker was Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army ...

The Panama Canal Soon after the discovery that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever, Major William Crawford Gorgas put the information to work in Cuba and later in the Panama Canal Zone. A previous ...

U.S. officials focused on preventing future outbreaks of yellow fever and other diseases, which were all caused, according to Major William Crawford Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer in Havana ...