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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A person lies inside a screened-in room in a bigger room.

Walter Reed

A yellow fever patient rests in a segregated, screened-in cubicle in Gorgas Hospital, a U.S. Army hospital in Panama City, Panama, in the early 1900s.

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