Reading Questions
This doctor died in 1902 but became famous for helping fight yellow fever.
Who is Walter Reed?
This doctor was nominated for a big science award three times but never won.
Who is Carlos Finlay?
This bug spreads yellow fever.
What is a mosquito (Aedes aegypti)?
This phrase means to stop something bad before it happens.
What is “head off”?
Brazilian workers used loudspeakers to tell people they were doing this.
What is giving yellow fever vaccines door to door?
This city had no more yellow fever cases by the end of 1901.
What is Havana?
This doctor thought yellow fever was caused by a germ smaller than bacteria.
Who is Dr. James Carroll?
Yellow fever is caused by this tiny germ.
What is a virus?
To “snuff out” an outbreak means to do this.
What is stop it completely?
These places in slums help mosquitoes grow and spread disease.
What are water barrels and puddles?
Scientists used these two animals to help make the yellow fever vaccine.
What are monkeys and mice?
A hospital was named after him, and he made sure volunteers knew the risks.
Who is Walter Reed?
Mosquitoes can pass yellow fever to their babies through these.
What are eggs?
The word “circling” in the Brazil article means this about Yellow Fever.
What is surrounding or getting close?
What made it hard for health workers to vaccinate everyone?
What are slow government actions and false vaccine rumors?
This discovery helped protect people the most from yellow fever.
What is making a vaccine?
This doctor taught about germs in Cuba and the U.S.
Who is Dr. Aristides Agramonte?
Yellow fever still causes problems on these two continents.
What are Africa and South America?
Mosquitoes use this to spread the virus when they bite.
What is saliva?
The Brazil outbreak could become the first big city epidemic since this year.
What is 1942?
Give two reasons why some people in Reed’s study didn’t get yellow fever.
What are: (1) Mosquitoes bit people too late or (2) the virus didn’t stay in the mosquito long enough?
He made the first yellow fever vaccine in 1936.
Who is Dr. Max Theiler?
Name two reasons why we still can’t get rid of yellow fever completely.
What are: (1) Some countries can’t afford the vaccine, and (2) bug spray can hurt the environment?
This word means moving quickly and powerfully, like the virus toward cities.
What is lunging?
Put these 4 events in order: virus spreads, vaccine delayed, rumors start, workers go door-to-door.
What is: (1) virus spread, (2) delay, (3) rumors, (4) door-to-door vaccines?