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United States troops in the Spanish-American War suffered from yellow fever. Fear of its spread to the mainland after the end of hostilities in 1899 invoked large-scale efforts by the Marine Hospital Service to ensure adequate quarantine inspection of troops being returned from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Here troops are undergoing inspection and disinfection of baggage at the quarantine detention camp on Daufuskie Island South Carolina.
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