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Born
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Received his medical degree
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Commissioned an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army
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Assigned as professor of bacteriology and clinical microscopy at the Army Medical School in Washington
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Reed was appointed head of the commission of U.S. Army medical officers to investigate the cause and mode of transmission of yellow fever in american troops in Cuba.
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eed and his associates decided to concentrate upon determining the mode of transmissioon.
. Carlos Juan Finlay first advanced the theory that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes (he blamed it on the Stegomyia fasciata, later known as the Aedes aegypti) and proved it by experiments, but physicians generally did not credit the possibility. -
Returned to Washington, D.C.
resumed his teaching duties at the Army Medical School -
Dies
