Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Yellow Fever

Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Yellow Fever

Steve Rigdon from St. Louis University describes the process of designing experiments to determine the cause of yellow fever infections during the outbreak in Cuba in the early 1900s. The process of designing experiments in order to understand how people are infected is directly relevant to how we better understand the spread of COVID-19.