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

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