Yellow Fever Yellow fever is a potentially deadly infection that has the power to kill with just a bite from a mosquito. This infection, that mainly began in the 1900’s, has caused many people to have nasty symptoms and even death. This potent disease has gruesome consequences if it is allowed to reach the further stages, and it has the ability to transmit rapidly within a short period of time.
The initial symptoms will appear three to six days after being bitten by a mosquito. The three to six days is called the incubation period, in which there will be no signs. “Once the infection enters the acute phase, you may experience signs and symptoms” (Yellow Fever Symptoms). These symptoms may include: fever, headache, muscle aches, sensitivity …show more content…
When people were infected, they received high doses of whiskey and eggnog as treatment. Another treatment method they used was to rub kerosene and oil on their skin. For medication they used Quinine to help with pain and fevers. “The most common treatment was simply to keep the patient quiet and comfortable, and hope that they survived” (Yellow Fever in Canal).
The yellow fever outbreak during the 1900’s frightened most of the canal workers. “Yellow fever’s gruesome symptoms and high death rate were so horrifying to American canal workers that even a whisper of an outbreak sent boatloads of men fleeing” (Yellow Fever in Canal). During their time period the doctors had not yet thought that mosquitoes could be the culprits behind the transmission of this repulsive virus.
“Colonel Gorgas arrived in the canal zone in June of 1904 as Chief Medical Officer” (Yellow Fever in Canal). On January 30, 1905, the Panama Star And Herald recognized the outbreak and the story headline read: “Yellow Jack in Panama”. “Following the death of several prominent canal officials in April 1905, the Isthmus erupted into chaos” (Freeman). In the spring of 1905 the Canal excavation had come to a stop after Chief Engineer Wallace resigned. By June 1905 the casualties had increased to nineteen and the cases to sixty-two. Then around the Summer of 1905, President Roosevelt allotted the money for Gorgas’s
The initial symptoms will appear three to six days after being bitten by a mosquito. The three to six days is called the incubation period, in which there will be no signs. “Once the infection enters the acute phase, you may experience signs and symptoms” (Yellow Fever Symptoms). These symptoms may include: fever, headache, muscle aches, sensitivity …show more content…
When people were infected, they received high doses of whiskey and eggnog as treatment. Another treatment method they used was to rub kerosene and oil on their skin. For medication they used Quinine to help with pain and fevers. “The most common treatment was simply to keep the patient quiet and comfortable, and hope that they survived” (Yellow Fever in Canal).
The yellow fever outbreak during the 1900’s frightened most of the canal workers. “Yellow fever’s gruesome symptoms and high death rate were so horrifying to American canal workers that even a whisper of an outbreak sent boatloads of men fleeing” (Yellow Fever in Canal). During their time period the doctors had not yet thought that mosquitoes could be the culprits behind the transmission of this repulsive virus.
“Colonel Gorgas arrived in the canal zone in June of 1904 as Chief Medical Officer” (Yellow Fever in Canal). On January 30, 1905, the Panama Star And Herald recognized the outbreak and the story headline read: “Yellow Jack in Panama”. “Following the death of several prominent canal officials in April 1905, the Isthmus erupted into chaos” (Freeman). In the spring of 1905 the Canal excavation had come to a stop after Chief Engineer Wallace resigned. By June 1905 the casualties had increased to nineteen and the cases to sixty-two. Then around the Summer of 1905, President Roosevelt allotted the money for Gorgas’s