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==Other work== Rillieux also used his engineering skills to deal with a [[yellow fever]] outbreak in New Orleans in the 1850s. Rillieux presented a plan to the city that would eliminate the moist breeding grounds for the mosquitoes that carried the disease by addressing problems in the city's sewer system and drying [[swamp]]lands in the area. The plan was blocked by Edmund Forstall, now a state legislator.<ref name=Benfey /> Several years later, the ongoing yellow fever outbreak in New Orleans was addressed by engineers using a method extremely similar to Rillieux's proposals.
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