Doctors
Doctor who wanted to "alleviate human suffering," and went into US Army Medical School to become a doctor.
Dr. Reed
Name 1 of the yellow fever originally theories
contaminated clothing, baccillius icteroides, mosquitoes
Where are Doctor Reed and his team come from?
The United States
What happened in 1793?
The first outbreak of yellow fever.
What is Dr. Lazear's wife's name?
Mabel Lazear
Name at least 1 doctor who went with Reed to Cuba
Dr. Lazear, Dr. Agramonte, Dr. Carroll
How did they believe yellow fever spread through contaminated clothing?
When a sick patient's clothing or bedding touched someone else, they would get the disease.
Where does Dr. Reed and his team head to fight yellow fever?
Havana, Cuba.
Where was the first outbreak of yellow fever?
Philladelphia, Pennsylvania
Where did the Lazear's live?
in Mawssachusetts.
He is from Cuba and had always believed mosquitoes were the cause of transmitting yellow fever.
How did they believe bacteria caused yellow fever?
They believed that it was a bacteria going around that people would contract and it would make them sick.
Where is Cuba located? North, South, East, or West of the United States?
South
What are the symptoms people exhibit with yellow fever?
bleeding gums, high fever, yellow eyes, yellow skin, crushing headache, vomiting blood.
What happened to Dr. Lazear? What did his wife believe?
He allowed a sick mosquito bite him and he ended up dying of yellow fever. His wife did not believe he did it on purpose for the sake of medical science.
Why did the other doctors wants Dr. Jesse Lazear to lead the mosquito experiment?
Because he believed mosquitoes were the cause of yellow fever and he was very excited about leading the experiments.
How did doctors disprove bacillus icteroides as a cause for yellow fever?
What hospital are most yellow fever patients at in Cuba?
Las Animas Hospital
Why does your skin and eyes turn yellow when you contract YF?
It attacks your liver and it is unable to do its job.
Why is scientific research difficult/ risky?
It often involves people risking their life's to prove or disprove a theory.
Besides the mosquito theory, name the other theories and explain why it is important that the team was trying to eliminate the other theories.
Contaminated clothing, bacillus icteroides, and mosquitoes. It was important to eliminate the first two to prove that mosquitoes cause YF beyond a reasonable doubt and to begin finding a cure/ vaccine
Name an additional theory doctors believed was the cause of yellow fever and why it was difficult to prove.
Another theory was that YF was spread by bad air and this was difficult to prove because respiratory illness are hard to diagnose.
Where is Doctor Reed during most of the experiments and why?
At the capital- Washington- DC to publish the results of the team's findings.
Name one of the remedies for yellow fever in the early 1900s.
They usually use dead/ weakened germs/ viruses to create vaccines.