Gorgas to his staff as they performed an autoosy on a Panama Canal construction worker in 1905. “It’s the last case of yellow fever you’ll ever see. There’ll be no more deaths from this ...

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...

President Donald Trump has called for the US to retake control of the Panama Canal unless the cost of passage for naval and merchant ships is slashed. Trump’s refusal to rule out the use of force is a ...

Trump recently claimed 35,000 or 38,000 "American men" died building the Panama Canal between 1904 and 1914. And while thousands of lives were indeed lost during construction to malaria, yellow fever, ...

who built Egypt’s Suez Canal. But the conditions were harsh, and diseases like malaria and yellow fever killed many of the workers. The project was suspended in 1889 after money ran out and an ...

Malaria, yellow fever and other tropical diseases devastated ... the “Permanent Neutrality Treaty” and the “Panama Canal Treaty.” The first, which continues in perpetuity, gives the ...

Panama’s revolution from Colombia established Panama as a separate and sovereign nation. This allowed for the prompt ...

President Donald Trump is a man with a plan for the canal, namely to force Panama to limit China’s influence on the vital 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and the Pacific or risk the United ...

(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump insisted Monday that he wants the Panama Canal back under U.S. control ... and diseases like malaria and yellow fever killed many of the workers.