Fun Trivia : Clara Maass

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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information

Clara Maass

How is yellow fever transmitted to humans?

Clara Maass: American Nurse


Mosquito bite. The culprit is, more specifically, the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. This is not a mosquito indigenous to all regions.



Yellow fever in Cuba was contained by certain measures before vaccine became available. What were they?

Clara Maass: American Nurse


Window screens and eliminating mosquito breeding areas. The Yellow Fever Commission headed by Major Walter Reed was responsible for these studies, which took place in Camp Lazear, near Havana, Cuba. Their findings were pulished in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" on February 16, 1901 and are to this day considered accurate.



She has been honored since her death in what way?

Clara Maass: American Nurse


All of these (A place in the Nursing Hall of Fame, Commemorative postage stamps, A hospital was named for her). She has been honored by both Cuba and the United Stated with postage stamps and the original German Hospital in Newark is now the Clara Maass Medical Center, promoting her spirit of caring and adventure and contains a small museum with some of her personal effects. This was the first hospital to be named for a nurse. And she was inducted into the ANA nursing Hall of Fame in 1976. Cuba printed a postage stamp on the 50th year of her death and the US printed one on the 100th anniversary of her birth in 1976.