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and in particular its International Health Division--
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the American Academy of Tropical Medicine,
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the American Society of Tropical Medicine.
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And in the U.S., there were a couple of distinctive features.
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One was the association of tropical medicine with the military,
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and its leading figures, Walter Reed and William Gorgas,
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were in fact Army officers.
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And it was in the Western hemisphere too
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that yellow fever replaced malaria
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as the quintessential tropical disease.
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Some of the institutional links can be seen in specific cases.
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An example that's recently been studied,