Following yellow fever outbreaks, the US Congress established the National Board of Health
In 1879, following yellow fever outbreaks, the U.S. Congress established the National Board of Health, in part to assume responsibility for quarantine in cases where states’ actions had proven ineffective. The board tried but failed to impose a national quarantine, and it was dissolved for lack of funding in 1883.
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Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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