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What is the book title?
Mosquito Empires
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What is the vector of yellow fever?
Female aedes aegypti mosquito
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The regions of South, Central, and North America make up what region?
The Greater Caribbean
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What are the two main diseases that ravaged the Greater Caribbean?
Yellow fever and Malaria
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What is another name for yellow fever?
Black vomit
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Darien is located off the coast of _______
Panama
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Who does the vector of yellow fever affect the most?
Healthy males
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What drug treatment was in the form of powdered bark?
Quinine
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Who led the English attack on Spanish Jamaica?
Oliver Cromwell
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What is the revolution that overturned the plantation economy?
Haitian Revolution
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How did the Aedes Aegypti mosquito get to the Americas?
Slave ships
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Who is the author of Mosquito Empires?
John R. McNeill
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What was the main breeding grounds for the vector mosquitoes?
Sugar plantations
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What was the Spanish Empire's main defense?
The climate
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What killed more soldiers in the American Revolution than violence?
Infection and disease
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What caused for less chance of obtaining diseases?
Better living conditions
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Who was immune to yellow fever?
Blacks and natives to the islands
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List 3 alternative remedies for treating yellow fever
Worms, viper oil, beetles, earwigs, and bleeding out
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What colony did the Scots build at Darien?
Caledonia
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What nationality did yellow fever affect the most?
Europeans
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Where did Admiral Francis Hosier get his second round of crew members?
Jamaica
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What was created with the assistance from the fevers at Darien?
Great Britain
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When did the first epidemic of yellow fever occur?
1647 - 1652
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Who did Napoleon go to for help in getting back slavery in St. Dominigue?
Thomas Jefferson
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What is McNeill arguing throughout the book?
Quests for wealth and power changed ecologies and how ecological changes shaped politics.