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Volume 25, Number 8—August 2019
Historical Review

Lessons Learned from Dengue Surveillance and Research, Puerto Rico, 1899–2013

Tyler M. SharpComments to Author , Kyle R. Ryff, Gilberto A. Santiago, Harold S. Margolis, and Stephen H. Waterman
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA (T.M. Sharp, K.R. Ryff, G.A. Santiago, H.S. Margolis, S.H. Waterman); US Public Health Service, Rockville, Maryland, USA (T.M. Sharp, S.H. Waterman)

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Figure 1

Prominent public health figures in Puerto Rico during the early 1900s. A) Assistant Surgeon General Arthur H. Glennan, pictured circa 1895. B) Walter W. King, Chief Quarantine Officer of the US Quarantine Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, pictured in 1915. C) San Juan Health Commissioner William F. Lippett, pictured in 1899. D) From left to right: Puerto Rican tropical medicine physicians Isaac González Martínez and Pedro Gutiérrez Igaravídez met with yellow fever expert Henry Rose Carter, San Jua

Figure 1. Prominent public health figures in Puerto Rico during the early 1900s. A) Assistant Surgeon General Arthur H. Glennan, pictured circa 1895. B) Walter W. King, Chief Quarantine Officer of the US Quarantine Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, pictured in 1915. C) San Juan Health Commissioner William F. Lippitt, pictured in 1899. D) From left to right: Puerto Rican tropical medicine physicians Isaac González Martínez and Pedro Gutiérrez Igaravídez met with yellow fever expert Henry Rose Carter, San Juan Commissioner of Health William Lippitt, Mariano Lebredo from Cuba, William Gorgas, and (not pictured) Bailey K. Ashford and Walter W. King to determine the etiology of an outbreak in 1915 that was ultimately attributed to dengue. Images were obtained from the National Library of Medicine (A–C) or were originally published in Puerto Rico Ilustrado (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_Ilustrado) (D).

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