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A kid
Carlos was born on cuba december 3 1833 and his aunt had a school and she home schooled him until he was eleven.He had a french mother and a scottish father.His father owned a coffee plantation. -
School
In 1851 Finlay went to jefferson college for to be a Doctor.In 1847 Dr Carlos Finlay went to Germany to do his Primary studies and than he went to France to do more studies.He graduated in 1855,Than he went to Havana and to Paris. -
Medical school
Afterwards he settled in Cuba and opened a medical practice.In 1865 Dr Finlay sent a paper to the Academy of Sciences in Havana outlining his theory on weather conditions and the yellow fever disease. -
yellow fever
In 1865 Dr. Finlay sent a paper to the Academy of Sciences in Havana outlining his theory on weather conditions and the yellow fever disease.He was the first to theorize that a mosquito was the way by which yellow fever was transmitted a mosquito that bites a victim of the disease could bite a healthy person and spread the disease. -
The theary
In 1871 he spoke at medical conferences in Havana and Washington D.C.,but his theory of mosquito transmission of the virus met with silence from the medical and scientific community. -
after Hes dead
In 1900 during the first U.S. occupation of Cuba a U.S. medical commission led by Dr. Walter Reed went to Havana to study the disease. At first the U.S. scientists didn't pursue Dr. Finlay's mosquito theories,certain that it was filth that spread the yellow fever virus.When all their experiments failed they began to look over Dr. Finlay's 19 years of research. Eventually they concluded that yellow fever is contagious only in the first 3 days of illness and this became the first layer of proof fo -
the death
Carlos finlay died of old age But his Reasurch was cerryed on up through history. -
Proof
When all their experiments failed they began to look over Dr. Finlay's 19 years of research. Eventually they concluded that yellow fever is contagious only in the first 3 days of illness, and this became the first layer of proof for Dr. Finlay's theory. -
The Program
When Dr. Reed proved that Dr. Finlay had been right all along, mosquito control programs were introduced throughout Cuba, and in the Panama Canal zone, where worked had stopped due to yellow fever outbreaks and many deaths) and the disease brought under control. -
all done
Sadly, however, Dr. Reed's original report failed to even mention Dr. Finlay's theories and/or research, and it wasn't until 1954 39 years after Dr. Finlay's death that the International Congress of Medical History granted him the proper credit.
