Characters
The main character of the book
Who is Walter Reed?
The year that the yellow fever outbreak take place in Cuba.
What is 1900?
The disease that was the focus of the investigation in the book.
What is yellow fever?
The city that Walter Reed and his team conducted their experiments.
What is Havana?
he main symptom of Yellow Fever.
What is fever?
One of the doctors that worked along with Dr. Walter Reed.
Who is Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Jesse Lazear or Dr. Agramonte?
The primary location of the book "The Secret of the Yellow Death".
What is Cuba?
The mosquito species that was discovered to transmit yellow fever.
What is Aedes aegypti?
The name of the military base where experiments were conducted on volunteers.
What is Camp Columbia?
The organism that transmits yellow fever.
What is a mosquito?
The doctor who "accidentally" got bitten by a mosquito to help him learn if mosquitos were the cause of yellow fever.
Who is Dr. Jesse Lazear
The famous canal that was impacted by yellow fever, leading to the urgency to find a cure.
What is the Panama Canal?
The bodily fluid that was injected into volunteers to study yellow fever.
What is mosquito vomit?
The type of buildings that the U.S. Army used as hospitals during the yellow fever outbreak.
What are tents?
The primary symptom of yellow fever.
What is jaundice, or yellowing of the skin and eyes?
The soldier who confirmed that he did not leave the base after he was intentionally bitten by Dr. Lazear's mosquitos.
Who is Private Dean?
The place where a devastating outbreak of yellow fever occurred in 1793.
What is Philadelphia?
The term for a substance introduced to stimulate the production of antibodies.
What is an antigen?
the specific part of Cuba where the Yellow Fever outbreak took place.
What is Havana Harbor?
the methods used to control the spread of Yellow Fever.
What is fumigation or mosquito eradication?
The war that yellow fever posed a significant threat to soldiers.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The year that the discovery was made that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever.
What is 1900?
Yellow Fever gets its name from what symptom besides jaundice.
What is the yellow discoloration of body fluids like vomit?