Doctor Contributions
Who was the main doctor involved in coordinating the research of yellow fever?
Who is Dr. Walter Reed?
Who proposed the theory that mosquitoes were responsible for spreading yellow fever?
Who is Dr. Carlos Finlay?
What type of experiment did Dr. Reed conduct to test the mosquito theory?
What is allowing healthy volunteers to be bitten by infected mosquitoes?
What are some of the first symptoms of yellow fever?
What are headache, fever, and chills?
Which doctor became a hero in Cuba for his work on Yellow Fever?
Who is Dr. Carlos Finlay.
What was Dr. Reed's significant contribution to understanding the disease?
What is proving that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes?
What were the initial theories about how yellow fever was transmitted?
1. bacteria
2. Touch
3. Mosquito
Which two doctors purposefully got bitten by mosquitoes for the sake of science?
Who are Dr. Carroll and Dr. Lazear?
Which disease was similar to that of yellow fever symptoms?
What is malaria?
What two methods were used to kill mosquitos?
What is poison fumes and spraying oil?
Which doctor created the mosquito theory?
Who is Dr. Carlos Finlay
Who is Dr. James Carroll ?
What did Dr. Reed insist on asking the volunteers?
What is consent?
What treatments were recommended for yellow fever patients?
what is mustard baths, bleeding, and burning infected clothing to prevent the spread.
Once the cause of yellow fever was determined, what was the next step to stop the disease?
What is a vaccine?
Which doctor determined the timing of 12 days for a mosquito to spread yellow fever?
Who is Dr. Walter Reed?
Which volunteer with yellow fever confirmed ONE clear case of the disease being spread by a mosquito?
Who is Private Dean?
What was a challenge with the mosquito experiments?
What is keeping them alive in cold conditions.
What was a sign that someone would not recover from yellow fever?
What is vomitting blood.
Scientists realized a mosquito must bite a yellow fever patient within how many days of the illness in order to get the infection?
What is 3 days?
Who conducted research with a "wild mosquito" and what did his lab notes include as his nickname?
Who is Dr. Jesse Lazear, Guinea Pig 1
Explain the set of up the experiments of buildings 1 and 2 at Camp Lazear.
Building 1- infected clothing
Building 2- mosquito experiments (room split in half)
What did scientists learn about how Yellow Fever was produced? Explain.
What is a very small microorganism, which is a virus.
What can slow down the spread of yellow fever?
What is vaccination and extermination?
Where is yellow fever found today?
Where is Africa and South America?