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The U.S. Army Chemical Corps releases millions of mosquitoes infected with yellow fever.

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They are released in towns in Georgia and Florida as part of a biological weapons test. For example, residents of Carver Village, an exclusively Black area in Florida, are swarmed by mosquitoes and develop fevers, bronchitis, typhoid, encephalitis, and stillbirths. Some die. After each release, Army agents posing as public health officials photograph and test victims, and then vanish.