Clara Maass

Clara Louise Maass (June 28, 1876 – August 24, 1901) was an American nurse who died as a result of volunteering for medical experiments to study yellow fever.^[1]^[2]

^ "Yellow Fever Experiments Have Deadly Results. Clara Maass, the Girl Martyr, Buried In Colon Cemetery. She Was the Third to Die Out of Eight Bitten -Hers Was a Pathetic Case, a Trained Nurse, Who Had Served on the Battlefields of Santiago and About Manila, Often Exposed to Fever Infection. Girl Martyr. Clara Maass, Trained Nurse, the Third to Die in the Yellow Fever Experiments in Havana, Order to Turn Over Testimony. Cuban Newspaper Man Killed". Boston Globe. August 27, 1901. Of the eight persons bitten by infected mosquitoes in connection with yellow fever board during the last three weeks three have died.
^ Cope, Stanton E. (2011). "Clara Maass: An American Heroine". Wing Beats. 22 (2): 16–19.

[1] "Yellow Fever Experiments Have Deadly Results. Clara Maass, the Girl Martyr, Buried In Colon Cemetery. She Was the Third to Die Out of Eight Bitten -Hers Was a Pathetic Case, a Trained Nurse, Who Had Served on the Battlefields of Santiago and About Manila, Often Exposed to Fever Infection. Girl Martyr. Clara Maass, Trained Nurse, the Third to Die in the Yellow Fever Experiments in Havana, Order to Turn Over Testimony. Cuban Newspaper Man Killed". Boston Globe. August 27, 1901. Of the eight persons bitten by infected mosquitoes in connection with yellow fever board during the last three weeks three have died.

[Cope-2] Cope, Stanton E. (2011). "Clara Maass: An American Heroine". Wing Beats. 22 (2): 16–19.

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