The correct answer is B) Medical science advanced in fighting tropical disease.
The statement that best describes an important but unintended consequence of the construction of the Panama Canal is "Medical science advanced in fighting tropical disease."
After the French initiated the construction of the Panama Canal in the 1880s, the United States continued this complicated but amazing project in 1904. Many people participated in the construction, including Chinese workers.
The process of construction was very complicated due to high temperatures in the forest and the Yellow Fever, a serious illness that affect the human body with high temperatures, pain, and vomit that can reach the liver, causing severe abdominal pain and death. Many people died from this condition.
That is why Dr, Walter Reed, a military medical doctor, led the Reed Commission discovered that mosquito bite transmitted the disease.
