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A number of different hypotheses concerning yellow fever transmission, including those involving fomites or airborne "miasmas" related to poor sanitation, were widely held at the time.
These involved intensively exposing military volunteers either to blood-soaked linens, towels, and bedclothes from yellow fever victims (testing the fomite hypothesis) or to infected mosquitoes.