A timely biography of General William C. Gorgas, the US Army doctor whose pioneering fight against infectious disease around the world set the stage for the American Century
 

Carol R. Byerly specializes in the history of military medicine. Byerly is the author of Good Tuberculosis Men: The Army Medical Department’s Struggle with Tuberculosis and Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I.
 

“Carol Byerly has another home run! Like her earlier works on aspects of the Army Medical Department in the era of emerging scientific medicine, Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas deals with a topic that is known a little bit by some people but not thoroughly by many. The previous biographies were without critical apparatus; the most recent was more than 70 years ago. This thorough, critical, readable book will last at least that long.”
—Dale C Smith, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Military Medicine and History, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
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“What a magnificent book! Carol Byerly’s Mosquito Warrior supplants all others as the definitive biography of Dr. William Gorgas. The research and storytelling are extraordinary. I learned not just about Gorgas and yellow fever but also about the intimacy and expansiveness of history itself. I loved every word.”
—Elizabeth Fenn, author of Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82
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“Mosquito Warrior is timely and necessary to place William Gorgas in the historical narrative of medical history as well as public health in a broader and more closely researched biography. Much of Gorgas’s professional and medical accomplishments were not in the record of historical discourse, and with Mosquito Warrior, that will be corrected.”
—Deanne Stephens, author of Plague Among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi and The Mississippi Gulf Coast Seafood Industry: A People’s History
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