Secret Yellow Death 3

The following were all American Army doctors trying to find the cause of yellow fever except:

• Dr. Walter Reed

• Dr. James Carroll

• Dr. Carlos Finlay

• Dr. Jesse Lazear

Most people considered Dr. Finlay of Cuba to be crazy because of his theory that Yellow Fever was spread through:

• touch

• clothing

• mosquitoes

• ticks

The usual symptoms of yellow fever included yellow eyes, yellowish liver, the yellow skin.

• True

• False

How did Dr. Carroll find out that he had yellow fever?

• He tested his blood to see if he had yellow fever or malaria.

• He had to wait to see if he got sores around his mouth.

• He had to take a saliva test.

• He had to wait to see if he got bleeding gums and yellow skin

Why were the scientists unsure of how Dr. Carroll got yellow fever?

• He visited Las Animas Hospital in Havana and Camp Columbia the week before and could have gotten infected there.

• He visited Dr. Finlay the week before and could have gotten bit by one of his mosquitoes.

• He was not showing signs of having yellow fever yet.

• He was not actually bitten by an infected mosquito.

The doctors knew that Dr. Lazear was probably going to die because:

• he turned yellow.

• he was delirious.

• he vomited up black blood

• he had a fever of 104 degrees.

Private Dean took the bribe that Dr. Reed offered to lie about leaving the army base.

• True

• False

All of the following are reasons that Dr. Reed doubted the mosquito theory except:

• Private Dean was lying about how he had contracted Yellow Fever

• Some of Lazear’s volunteers stayed healthy when bitten by mosquitoes.

• Finlay had failed to produce yellow fever cases when he tried to do the experiment.

• Some mosquito bites caused the disease while others did not.

to send from one person to another

• fluke

• transmit

• dreadful

• frantic

a guess or feeling not based on known facts

• equivalent

• insufficient

• hunch

• deliberately