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Nurses Bullard, Ferguson, and Norsdoff at a temporary yellow fever hospital in Franklin, Louisiana. Fast action by Dr. Henry R. Caner, who arranged the establishment of a detention camp, temporary hospital, and train inspection service, averted a major outbreak of yellow fever like the one in 1878 that swept up the Mississippi River claiming 20,000 lives. The last outbreak of yellow fever in the United States occurred at New Orleans in 1905.
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