Rise and Fall of the U.S. Public Health Service

America's stepchild uniformed service. From a 1798 tax on sick sailors to a global disease-hunting corps that named Machupo and Ebola — and a service that rarely held the power its uniform implied. Told through the diseases that built American public health (yellow fever, cholera, the 1918 flu, polio, malaria, HIV, COVID) and the rare Surgeons General who mattered. Narrated by AI voices from sourced, human-reviewed research.