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How did diseases affect the construction of the Panama canal?

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It killed many people and made it to where the railroad was a slower maintenance
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Answer: An estimated 12,000 workers had died during the construction of the Panama Railway and over 22,000 during the French effort to build a canal. Many of these deaths were due to disease, particularly yellow fever and malaria.

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