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Jul 14, 2021 · The spark of the New York City yellow fever epidemic was the arrival of the disease in Philadelphia in the summer of 1793. After people fled yellow fever in the Caribbean, they brought it...
2 days ago · The establishment of the scientific method from about the mid-19th century on demanded testable hypotheses and verifiable phenomena for causation and transmission. Anecdotal reports, and the discovery in 1881 that mosquitoes were the vector of yellow fever, eventually led to the investigation of mosquitoes in connection with malaria.
2 days ago · Gorgas’s idea was to have a broader repertoire of sanitation methods against the mosquitos which were spreading the diseases (McCullough). The methods that Gorgas too were a success and within a 10-year period of the construction of the canal, Yellow Fever had been eradicated (McCullough).
2 days ago · The nonspecific immune response is the body’s method of preventing the entry of pathogens as well as rapidly responding to the first signs of potential infection. A pathogen is an organism or agent that can infect a host and cause disease.
3 days ago · The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror, the Yellow Menace and the Yellow Specter) is a racist color metaphor that depicts the peoples of East and Southeast Asia as an existential danger to the Western world.
4 days ago · Definitions of Gorgas. noun. United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920) synonyms: William Crawford Gorgas. see more.
5 days ago · Located 56 miles southwest of Flagstaff on the east slope of Mingus Mountain — a 1,750-million-year-old volcanic tuff — the town of Jerome and its surroundings were once known as one of the...
