A physician who disbelieved in vaccination would not be the right man to handle an epidemic of smallpox, nor should we leave a doctor skeptical about the transmission of yellow fever by the Stegomyia mosquito in charge of sanitation at Havana or Panama.
Roosevelt uses a medical analogy to illustrate the importance of expertise in managing public health and infrastructure.
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