. . . . "Yellow Jack"@en . . "4980.0"^^ . . . "Yellow Jack refers to a 1934 play (see Yellow Jack (play) and a 1938 Hollywood movie by the same name. Both were co-written by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif (the former a Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter; the latter a well-known microbiologist and author). The plot line follows the events of the well-known \"Walter Reed Boards,\" in which Major Walter Reed of the U.S. Army worked to diagnose and treat yellow fever (called \u201Cyellow jack\u201D) in Cuba in 1898-1900. The U.S."@en . . . . . . . .