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Walter Reed, and a palindrome
The French had already attempted to build a canal through the isthmus, but couldn't do it. 22,000 of them died, whereas only 5,609 Americans died.
The French had already attempted to build a canal through the isthmus, but couldn't do it. 22,000 of them died, whereas only 5,609 Americans died.
The canal was thus not just an engineering, but a medical triumph, credited to U. S. Army physician [[Walter Reed]]. Reed identified the mosquito ''Aedes aegypti'' as the carrier of yellow fever. Mosquito-control measures limited the spread of infection and made it possible to complete the work.
==Trivia==
*A well-known [[palindrome]] (a sentence that reads the same forwards and backwards) is:
:::A man, a plan, a canal—Panama!