Medicine: Tropical Diseases
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Yellow Fever has been wiped off urban portions of the Western Hemisphere since 1927, but still exists as "jungle yellow fever" in the interior of South America, the interior of Africa, as far east as the Sudan. An excellent vaccine has been developed against the disease, but the Army is worried that the disease may spread among civilians.
Cholera, still widespread and deadly in India and China, can be prevented among the soldiers by vaccination. So can bubonic plague, carried by rat fleas, although protection is not complete.
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