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Mariola Espinosa, The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Aug., 2006), pp. 541-568
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