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Who was the team leader whose experiments proved mosquitoes spread yellow fever?
Walter Reed.
What kind of insect spreads yellow fever?
Mosquito
What important medical tool that prevents yellow fever was created in 1936?
Vaccine
Name all parts of RACE
restate, answer, cite evidence, explain/elaborate evidence
What rule about volunteers in experiments became common because of Reed’s work? (Say it simply.)
That volunteers must be fully informed of the risks (informed consent).
According to the passage, how long might the virus need to stay inside a mosquito before it can infect a person? Answer with a number of days.
3-17 days
Where/when did the 2018 outbreak occur?
March 2018. Sao Paola Brazil
We don't say "I think"
We say I KNOW
Name the doctors on the case of yellow fever
Carroll, Lazear, Reed
Give two clear reasons from the passage why some volunteers who were bitten did NOT get yellow fever.
(1) Mosquitoes hadn’t bitten sick people during the first three infectious days, so they weren’t carrying the virus; (2) the virus did not stay in the mosquito long enough before it bit the volunteer.
Define catastrophe
a disaster
Something you do not do for an informational or argumentative writing essay/paragraph
Stating your own opinion/thoughts and not using purely the facts
What is the Hippocratic oath?
A promise/sworn in oath for medical professionals
Name in order the steps of a successful mosquito transmission
1. Bites infected human, within 3 days bites healthy human, human becomes infected with yellow fever
Which season (cold or hot) helped slow the outbreak last year?
cold/winter
What is a claim?
A statement that is to be proven true
What are the effects of yellow fever?
Yellow skin, other organs, coughing blood, etc
What was the unusual pattern for yellow fever
South east traveling
Name one of the promises from the oath
not discriminate a patient based on race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
I will respect autonomy of the patient
I will share knowledge for future medical advancement
Why do you elaborate evidence
To make sure that you are relating it back to the prompt question