113: The Ridiculous Yellow Fever Experiments

Stubbins Ffirth was a mess student who really went above and beyond to become a doctor, by using himself as a guinea pig to test the infectiousness of yellow fever…You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel:http://youtube.com/SciGuys Help keep the show running by supporting us on Patreon!http://patreon.com/sciguys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further ReadingYellow Fever1. https://www.britannica.com/science/yellow-fever2. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/yellow-fever3. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/yellow-fever/4. https://www.cdc.gov/yellowfever/vaccine/index.html5. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/yellow-fever6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892770/Stubbins Ffirth and his experiments1. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mrme9h3v2. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2050030-2,00.html3. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/dn16735-eight-scientists-who-became-their-own-guinea-pigs/amp/4. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/11639615. https://www.nature.com/articles/nj6959-745a6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44450391?seq=1