Fred L. Soper (1893-1977) was an American epidemiologist and public health administrator known for organizing successful campaigns to eradicate yellow fever and Malaria between 1927 and 1945. He also made key contributions to the control of typhus fever during World War II, and served as director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (executive agency of the Pan American Health Organization) from 1947 to 1959.
The National Library of Medicine is the Fred L. Soper Papers repository from 1919 to 1975. The collection contains awards, diaries, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, reprints, and printed matter, photographs, and reports.
Images and documents include research on Hookworm disease in South America, 1920-1927, the fight against Yellow Fever and Malaria in Brazil, 1928-1942, papers on World War II typhus fever and Malaria in the Mediterranean, and documents related to Soper’s work at the Pan American Health Organisation, 1947-1959.
Yellow fever vaccination in Belem, Brazil Date: [1930s] Description: A family about to travel into the Amazon forest is inoculated against yellow fever. Courtesy of Fred L. Soper. US National Library of Medicine
