Aristides Agramonte y Simoni (June 3, 1868 – August 19, 1931) was a
Cuban American physician, pathologist and bacteriologist with expertise in
tropical medicine. In 1898
George Miller Sternberg appointed him as an Acting Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army and sent him to Cuba to study a yellow fever outbreak.[1] He later served on the
Yellow Fever Commission, a U.S. Army Commission led by
Walter Reed which examined the transmission of
yellow fever.[2][3]
In addition to this research, he also studied plague, dengue, trachoma, malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and more. After serving on the Yellow Fever Commission, he served as a professor at the
University of Havana as well as many government positions.[4][5]
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