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How do they treat malaria and yellow fever in the panama canal today?
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What problems were there building the Panama Canal?
Yellow fever & malaria.
What disease killed workers of the panama canal?
Malaria and Yellow Fever killed most workers.
How did yellow fever play a role in the building of the Panama canal?
how did yellow fever play a role in the Panama Canal
What dangers did the workers face during building the Panama Canal?
There were normal dangers of construction. They had heavy machinery moving about, the danger of large mud and dirt slides caving in on them. One big difficulty was malaria. Many workers died of yellow fever.
What diseases killed most of the men who worked on the Panama Canal?
Malaria and Yellow fever
What were the two worst diseases that killed Panama Canal workers?
The Panama Canal workers suffered from deadly endemic diseases. These were known as yellow fever and malaria. These diseases practically disabled many and killed at least 20k workers in the 1880's.
What steps were taken to solve the outbreaks of yellow fever and malaria during the construction of the Panama Canal.?
Quinine
What two diseases were passed around well the Panama Canal was being built?
Yellow fever and malaria 👩🏻
What is the Panama Canal's land-form?
the panama canal was built on tropical land! where there was a ton of mosquito's that colonel William GGorgas made a plot to stop them and their yellow fever and malaria!
How did Colonel William C Gorgas make the canal zone safe for the workers?
He controlled the amount of mosquitos that were in the Panama Canal Zone which caused disease such as malaria and yellow fever.
What were Reasons for the failure of building the panama canal?
There was very poor sanitation causing many workers to die of Malaria and Yellow Fever.
What colonel William gorges did that may have made him the real hero in the building of Panama Canal?
he reduced the yellow fever and malaria that killed many workers building the canal.
