As my ship drifts along the soothing but trembling water, I import to the desired location of the Panama Canal. The vast jungle ahead lures me to it as I juggle my luggage into my car. Entering the mysterious enviroment, I her a slight sound of some sort of bird overhead, until it was interupted of an alarming sound of a howler monkey, swinging through the treetops. As I pull into my post, I notice some desperate victims of the sort of well know disease, yellow fever. Questioning their state of health, I lead them into the infermary. I set them onto a couple of beds, and my assistant, Nurse Beatrice, enters with my personal and medical belongings. “Good day, Dr. James Maxwell,” she greeted with a bold smile,” Dr. William Gorgas is expecting you to meet him at
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At the construction site, I see William, fidling with something that must be a pen. “Probably writing a few quick notes, I suppose,” I thought with curiousity. “Greetings, Dr. Maxwell,” he said in a sophisticated tone. ”I feel proud to call you my new…. Oh, what’s the word…”
“Co-worker, sir.” I pitch in.
“Oh, yes indeed,” he chuckled,” we have terrible news. Yellow fever is spreading arround here, and we do not know what is causing it. Some men have already been affected.”
“I’ve noticed,” I chanted with positivity. ”Well, we should start research today!”
In the infirmary, I see a chimp, swinging from the ceilng, swatting away some critters, which give me a thought. I remember from my schooling that in the past, disease was mostly spread through mosquitos, since first recorded during the plague of 1793. I explain my theory of the mosquitos, aand he finds it reasonable.
“Aedes Aegypti,” Dr. Gorgas concluded,” those pests did cause havoc; everyone turned from the victims of the brutal disease.”
“Very foolish,” I said jokingly,” It was mosquitos that held the disease, but everyone thought it was contagious through humans
At the construction site, I see William, fidling with something that must be a pen. “Probably writing a few quick notes, I suppose,” I thought with curiousity. “Greetings, Dr. Maxwell,” he said in a sophisticated tone. ”I feel proud to call you my new…. Oh, what’s the word…”
“Co-worker, sir.” I pitch in.
“Oh, yes indeed,” he chuckled,” we have terrible news. Yellow fever is spreading arround here, and we do not know what is causing it. Some men have already been affected.”
“I’ve noticed,” I chanted with positivity. ”Well, we should start research today!”
In the infirmary, I see a chimp, swinging from the ceilng, swatting away some critters, which give me a thought. I remember from my schooling that in the past, disease was mostly spread through mosquitos, since first recorded during the plague of 1793. I explain my theory of the mosquitos, aand he finds it reasonable.
“Aedes Aegypti,” Dr. Gorgas concluded,” those pests did cause havoc; everyone turned from the victims of the brutal disease.”
“Very foolish,” I said jokingly,” It was mosquitos that held the disease, but everyone thought it was contagious through humans