113: The Ridiculous Yellow Fever Experiments - a podcast by The Sci Guys

Stubbins Ffirth was a mess student who really went above and beyond to become a doctor, by using himself as a guinea pig to test the infectiousness of yellow fever…



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References & Further Reading



Yellow Fever

1. https://www.britannica.com/science/yellow-fever

2. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/yellow-fever

3. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/yellow-fever/

4. https://www.cdc.gov/yellowfever/vaccine/index.html

5. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/yellow-fever

6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892770/



Stubbins Ffirth and his experiments

1. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mrme9h3v

2. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2050030-2,00.html

3. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/dn16735-eight-scientists-who-became-their-own-guinea-pigs/amp/

4. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1163961

5. https://www.nature.com/articles/nj6959-745a

6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44450391?seq=1