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What was discovered to be the source of Yellow Fever?
Monkeys
What was created to prevent Yellow Fever?
A vaccine
How did Dr Finlay help find the cause of yellow fever?
He came up with a hypothesis that mosquitoes were the cause.
How were Jesse Lazear's experiments similar to Walter Reed's?
Both allowed human subjects to be bitten by mosquitoes
Why do you think Dr Finlay wanted to find the cause of Yellow Fever?
He wanted to stop the spread of a deadly disease.
How does the author feel about Jesse Lazear?
He admires him because he put his life in danger to fight a deadly disease.
In British English, what 'slang' word is short for mosquitoes?
mozzies
Give one reason why people might be against having a vaccine
Privacy invasion / Harmful substances untested
Other than Yellow Fever, name 5 more epidemics that have swept nations across the globe
Spanish flu, Ebola, SARS, MERS, COVID19
In what century did the Yellow Fever epidemic hit America?
19th
Where did the army send Major Walter Reed?
Cuba
