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A brief history of Walter Reed Hospital (AP via Yahoo! News
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Congressional legislation authorized the construction of the Walter Reed General Hospital, which admitted its first patients on May 1, 1909. It's named after Maj. Walter Reed, an Army physician and research scientist credited with discovering that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever.

 
 

 
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