HIST 123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Aedes Aegypti, Army Medical School, Yellow Fever

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 123
• Professor: Elizabeth Piper

Document Summary

Growing concerns on how clean water, disposal of human waste, how it lead to public and legal pressure of habits and lifestyles. How vector control was part of larger prevention program. Unlike malaria, it has high mortality rates and affects newcomers to the tropics as people already there had immunity because of childhood exposure. Same dynamics influence the american involvement in panama: panama canal. Panama canal: shorten transit between atlantic and pacific oceans. France was the first that thought panama canal would not be a big problem. Isthmus: best place, narrowest strip of land. 1876 french company was created to begin construction on panama canal, 2 yrs later it secured the rights to dig a canal across the isthmus. Problem: stopped by engineering and disease problem, yellow fever affected and was very frightening, typhoid. Canal not only economic but strategic importance: usa purchased and working on it in.