Jesse William Lazear

American physician (1866-1900) · United States · On the map · Doctors · Died at 34

Jesse William Lazear was an American physician. In 1900, he deliberately allowed a mosquito to bite him to test the hypothesis that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever transmission. He contracted the disease but did not recover and died on September 25, 1900.

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