Vocabulary
to lessen
What is alleviate?
yellow skin and eyes, bleeding gums, high fevers, and weak, slow heartbeats.
What are the symptoms of Yellow Fever?
Four Doctors who worked together to find the cause of Yellow Fever
Dr. Lazear, Dr. Walter Reed, Dr. Caroll, and Dr. Agramonte.
Year of the first recorded epidemic of Yellow fever
1648 in Mexico
The number of people who still die from Yellow Fever each year
What is 30,000?
The definition of microbe
What is a living thing that is too small to be seen without a microscope?
Approximately 5,000 people, or 10% of the city's population died at this time.
What is the Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793
Dr. Reed's good friend who caught Yellow Fever at Camp Columbia in Cuba
Who was Major Kean?
These conditions made Philadelphia an especially good place for an epidemic
What are unsanitary conditions and marshes?
Most cases of Yellow Fever today are found in these countries
Some countries in Africa and in Central and South America
autopsies
What are examinations of dead bodies?
A germ that was wrongly thought to cause Yellow Fever
What is Bacillus Icteroides?
A Cuban scientist and expert who spent years trying to prove that mosquitoes carried yellow fever
Who is Dr. Carlos Finlay?
This was developed in 1937 and led to preventing future Yellow Fever epidemics
What was a vaccine?
People have cleaned up areas where they live and eliminated mosquitos that carry the disease.
What is one reason why most people do not get Yellow Fever today?
glasses wearing
What is bespectacled?
These came on ships to Philadelphia with refugees from the Carribean
What are Yellow Fever infected mosquitoes?
A doctor who treated patients during the Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793
Who was Dr. Benjamin Rush?
This Doctor volunteered to be bitten by an infected mosquito during an experiment and died.
Who was Dr. James Carroll?
People get vaccinated when they are travelling to a place where Yellow Fever is common
What is a second reason why people do not usually get Yellow Fever today?
restless and confused
What is delerious?
The name of the mosquito species that carries Yellow Fever
What is the Aedes aegypti mosquito?
The doctor who invented the Yellow Fever vaccine and won a Nobel prize.
Max Theiler
At one time, people thought this caused Yellow Fever
What was touching bedding and clothing of infected people
What was touching the bedding and clothing of infected people?
The disease is no longer found in his country today.
What is the United States?