People of the Investigation
Who led the U.S. Army’s yellow fever commission?
Walter Reed
What question were the scientists trying to answer?
What causes Yellow Fever?
Where did the investigation take place?
What is Cuba?
Name four symptoms of yellow fever.
What is Fever, chills, vomiting blood, 104 temperatures, delirium, headache?
Why did scientists risk infection?
What is to find the truth how yellow fever was spread and save lives?
Which doctor first suggested mosquitoes carried yellow fever?
Who is Carlos Finlay?
Insects that spread yellow fever and Malaria?
What is a Mosquito?
The reason yellow fever was common in Havana Cuba?
What is; Hot, humid climate and standing water?
What body change gives yellow fever its name?
What is Yellow skin/eyes?
Why was using human volunteers controversial?
What is the people volunteering could die or get sick?
Which volunteer was really athletic and played a huge role in testing mosquitoes to see if they could spread yellow fever.
Who was Jesse Lazear?
What method did Reed’s team use to test Finlay’s theory?
What is; Used human experiments with mosquito bites?
The name of the ship Walter Reed rode on to Cuba?
What is USS Sedgwick?
What organ does yellow fever damage?
What is the liver?
Chance worth the risk of taking to help others.
What is a soldier's chance?
Who continued experimenting even after becoming ill?
Who is James Carroll?
Why were volunteers needed?
What is; To prove mosquitoes transmit the disease?
The place where a man contracted yellow fever and had no contact with others.
Where is the prison?
A metaphor or simile used to describe the eyes of one who had yellow fever.
What are eyes were lemons, or eyes like lemons?
Why was Finlay not believed at first?
What is his theory lacked proof and sounded odd as well as the mosquitoes he had did not seem to transmit yellow fever?
Who helped collect evidence from autopsies and run experiments in Cuba? He was known as a dandy.
Who was Aristides Agramonte?
What was the team’s most important discovery?
What is; Yellow fever is spread by mosquitoes, not direct contact?
The year major experiments take place to find a vaccine or cure for yellow fever.
What is 1900?
What modern tool prevents yellow fever?
What is a Vaccine?
Why didn't the other prisoners contract yellow fever in the prison even though they had been placed where the man with yellow fever died?
What is, yellow fever is not spread by touch, germs on clothing, or pillows?