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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Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C.] (Photo of Siler)