DeCelle-Austin 1
Mary-Ann DeCelle-Austin
Professor: D. Alvarez
IS 305
December 9, 2006
Malaria, Yellow Fever and the Panama Canal
“Panama was a crossroads of global trade, the keystone of the great Spanish Empire, a century before the first white settlers struggled ashore at Massachusetts Bay (La Feber 3). In the 1500’s, many explores came to the Isthmus looking for fame and fortune but found neither. “Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas first landed in the are during the spring of 1501, wandered through a hundred-mile zone desperately searching for treasure, and retuned empty-handed to his ship” (La Feber 3). If the explores left alive, they were lucky. “Then one by one they began to die, of what they did not know” (La Feber 3). They were unaware that the insect that was biting them could cause fever, disease and eventually death. “The Spaniards greatly feared the......
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