Carlos Juan Finlay
1833-1915
Cuban Physician, Epidemiologist and Public Health Reformer
Although the American physician Walter Reed (1851-1902) is generally associated with the discovery of the means ...
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The Cuban physician and epidemiologist Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) discovered that certain mosquitoes transmit yellow fever.Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Camagüey Province on Dec. 3, 1833, of...
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Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban physician and biologist, who, in 1881, suggested that yellow fever, an acute febrile illness fatal to half its victims, was transmitted by mosquitoes. His theory, confir...
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Carlos Juan Finlay
Carlos Juan Finlay
Carlos Juan Finlay