Espinosa book, “The Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence” delineates on the beginning of the epidemic yellow fever and how it has impacted US and Cuba relations. This disease originated in Cuba in 1878 and later made its way to the Southern and Northern United states where it infected a large amounts of the population. This disease was killing many Americans causing business to halt and everyday life to stop which also in turn meant that one of American most valuable income sources was slowing down and that was trade. In order to correct the effects that the yellow fever was having on the States government officials decided to get to the root of the problem and fix it by sanitizing Cuba. With the sanitization of Cuba, it was said
