Joseph Franklin Siler
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Colonel Joseph Franklin Siler, MD (1875-1960) was a U.S. Army physician noted for investigations of mosquito transmission of dengue fever in the Philippines.
Siler was commander the Laboratory Service in the American Expeditionary Forces in France in World War I and undertook extensive experimental observations on the manufacture and immunizing efficacy of anti-typhoid vaccines.
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- [http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/misc/evprev/fig32.jpg Bayne-Jones, Stanhope (1968), The Evolution of Preventive Medicine in the United States Army, 1607-1939,
Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C.] (Photo of Siler)