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