The Panama Canal - Panama Fever Part - 11

I wanted to read about the Panama Canal because it’s my aunt’s dream to take a cruise on the Panama Canal, before she dies, and she bought me a book for my 25th Birthday on that topic.  The Panama Canal is one of the most amazing and important pieces of construction ever built- the Panama Canal was built in 1914, however, there was some controversy’s related to the Panama Canal, opening it up to enemies, or other workers.

The Panama Canal faced a major crisis in its construction: due to yellow fever: it sickened the engineers, workers, military officials and sanitary inspectors to study the disease- yellow fever- a disease so severe that even Cream of the Crop got sick and sometimes died. These included those that lived in the nicest areas, well hygiene, good healthcare and they still got sick. It was the single greatest threat to the Panama Canal.

The Yellow Fever was the single greatest threat to the Panama Canal -the expansion of America into South America- with the Yellow Fever crippling, sickening and hurting the Panama Canal’s prestige and the Americans ability to build the canal. The infected insects were studied by US Army experiments with there findings of the incubation and in 1909 the American medical journal published- finally the final research into the threat of Yellow Fever to West Point.

The infected insects were studied by the USA Army volunteer team and there experiments where were Carrol narrowly survived. In 1909, the American medical Journal, wrote an intense piece, to Alfred Mahan. Panama City, started in Havana, and his efforts proceeded Gorga’s in October 1904. They were poor, unintelligent and not good at their job. The US Government was included in South America as the British Consul which was not compulsory. The impact of Yellow Fever was such a risk in Panama City that Americans were strongly discouraged to visit by the local Liberal Newspaper. Teddy Roosevelt created a commission in Panama, with Wallace, and the Surgeon Gorga’s disease to the Isthmus the Surgeon DR> Charles Gorgas failure to control the disease.

            The Panama Canal was threatened by the Yellow Fever that occurred between 1905-1909. The Yellow Fever crippled the worst of those effected by the Panama Canal: and even the best protected from disease: the Yellow Fever was a deadly disease one of the worst diseases of all time since the Black Plague. Yellow Fever caused the ability of the Panama Canal to be constructed to be significantly dimmed and defeated as it caused many of the people working on the Canal to get sick and die.