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John R. Kissinger, who lived in Huntington in his latter years, became the first volunteer in 1900 to subject himself to the bite of an infected mosquito in an experiment to identify the cause of "Yellow Jack" (Yellow Fever). This successful experiment by the Dr. Walter Reed Science Committee was necessary to make possible the construction of the Panama Canal.
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Huntington, Indiana · United States
