Carlos Juan Finlay
✓ Source-basedrisingCuban physician discoverer of means of transmission of yellow fever through biological vector (1833-1915)
DoctorsLived 1833 to 1915 · aged 81
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Languages28
Peak1940s
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Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti.
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El Obelisco, Finlay's memorial in Havana
The Finlay Medical History Museum in Havana in 2016
"History Museum of the Medical Sciences ' Carlos J. Finlay', created by the Revolutionary Government in eternal homage to the men who contributed to the advance of the sciences in Cuba. National Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Cuba. Havana, 13 June 1962."Awards 1
Doctors born in the 1830s 6
About this person
Category
Doctors
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Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1833 to 1915 · aged 81
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