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Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti.
Carlos J. Finlay (born Dec. 3, 1833, Puerto Príncipe, Cuba—died Aug. 20, 1915, Havana) was a Cuban epidemiologist who discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by a mosquito. Although he published experimental evidence of this discovery in 1886, his ideas were ignored for 20 years.
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Carlos Finlay | The National Library of Medicine. In response to his groundbreaking theory on the cause of yellow fever, Carlos Finlay was called a "crank" and a "crazy old man." The...
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May 11, 2018 · Carlos Juan Finlay. 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 a Scottish father and a French mother.
May 16, 2023 · Carlos J. Finlay. Last update:16 May 2023. UNESCO. Born on 3 December 1833 in Puerto Príncipe (today's city of Camagüey) in a French-Scottish family, Carlos J. Finlay studied at some of the most prestigious schools and institutes in the world.
Carlos Finlay | Thomas Jefferson University Archives. Since its first documented case in the 17th century, a great mystery surrounded yellow fever. What was its cause? Theories included...
Biographies. Finlay, Carlos. Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) was born in Cuba of European parents. He was sent to the Continent at the age of eleven for boarding school and then arrived in 1853 at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia to earn his medical degree.
