Doctors
The lead doctor on the investigative team; a man who wanted "alleviate human suffering"
Who is Doctor Walter Reed?
The island nation that came under U.S. control following the Spanish-American war.
What is Cuba?
The hypothesis that yellow fever is transmitted through the wearing of victim's bloody shirts, puked-stained bedding, and "soiled" undergarments.
Someone doing something dangerous and Courageous.
A. Taking Bold and Brave Actions
B. Working Methodically
C. Thinking Carefully and Logically
D. Collaborating with others
E. Trying new approaches
to move moving all around, especially in a pattern of surrounding.
ex. "The birds were _________ above us looking for their next meal."What is circling?
The chatty, Cuban-born doctor who led the team's autopsies on yellow fever victims
Who is Doctor Aristides Agramonte?
The capital of the United States; where Doctor Reed returns frequently to give reports and miss out on Doctor Lazear's first mosquito experiments.
What is Washington D.C.?
The hypothesis that yellow fever is transmitted through "dirty" particles that come from the breathing and coughing of yellow fever patients.
What is the Contaminated Air theory?
Someone taking their time to ensure experiments are done correctly with no accidents.
A. Taking Bold and Brave Actions
B. Working Methodically
C. Thinking Carefully and Logically
D. Collaborating with others
E. Trying new approaches
C. Thinking Carefully and Logically
to be respectable, especially in appearance. Most connected to how Dr. Agramonte looked like a "dandy."
What is dignified?
The thin, balding man. The team's best bacteriologist who survived his fight with yellow fever.
Who is Doctor James Carroll?
The capital of the island where the story takes place. An outbreak of hundreds of cases of yellow fever occurred here during the team's stay.
What is Havana?
The hypothesis that Bacillus Icteroides is the cause of yellow fever. The original theory tested by the team that was generally thought of as the "right answer" by the scientific community.
What is the Bacteria theory?
Someone working really hard to follow the correct procedures based on rules and their own values.
A. Taking Bold and Brave Actions
B. Working Methodically
C. Thinking Carefully and Logically
D. Collaborating with others
E. Trying new approaches
What is Working Methodically?
Medicine that provides protection from disease.
What is a vaccine?
The quiet, "darkly-handsome" man who played football in college. Later, he would tragically pass away from yellow fever.
The Army base where U.S. troops and the investigative doctors are originally housed.
What is Camp Columbia?
The theory that was originally thought to be a "joke" that turned out to be the true transmission of yellow fever.
What is the Mosquito theory?
Working together as a team to solve problems.
A. Taking Bold and Brave Actions
B. Working Methodically
C. Thinking Carefully and Logically
D. Collaborating with others
E. Trying new approaches
What is Collaborating with Others?
to cover something or make it harder to see through
ex. Forty-seven years later it has been permitted to me and my assistants to lift the impenetrable ____ that has surrounded the causation of this most dreadful pest of humanity
What is to veil?
The "crazy" Cuban scientist who originally came up with the mosquito theory.
Who is Doctor Carlos (Juan) Finlay?
The name of the camp where volunteers took place in the contaminated clothing, contaminated air, and mosquito experiments.
Named as a memorial to the doctor who died during his experiments.
What is Camp Lazear?
Challenge: This was the disease that was actually caused by human contact with Bacillus Icteroides.
What is Hog Cholera?
Someone attempting a different hypothesis, even if it gets them laughed at or made fun of.
A. Taking Bold and Brave Actions
B. Working Methodically
C. Thinking Carefully and Logically
D. Collaborating with others
E. Trying new approaches
What is trying new approaches?
a tubelike mouth structure that mosquitoes, moths, and butterflies all have
What is a proboscis?