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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.
- Jefferson Medical College
- August 20, 1915 (aged 81), Havana, Cuba
- Juan Carlos Finlay y de Barrés, December 3, 1833, Puerto Príncipe, Cuba
Mar 1, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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...
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.
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...
Oct 1, 2005 · Carlos Finlay, a Cuban physician who proposed the mosquito-vector theory in 1881, shared his ideas, his publications, and a sample of mosquito eggs with the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. The commission, headed by MAJ Walter Reed, used human volunteers to confirm Finlay’s theory.
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Jun 1, 1989 · Carlos J. Finlay was born in Camaguey, Cuba, Dec. 3, 1833, to Edward Finlay, a Scottish physician, and Eliza de Barres, a Frenchwoman born in Trinidad. He graduated in 1855 with an M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he was noted as persistent and patient.
