Carlos Finlay and Yellow Fever

Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915): of mosquitoes and yellow fever.

Years before the emergence of infamous Cuban revolutionaries like Castro and Guevara, a Cuban physician by the name Carlos Juan Finlay was stirring up a revolution of his own. The son of a Scottish physician, Finlay was born and raised in Havana, and educated in France, England and the United States. Described as courteous and energetic with boundless capacity for work, Finlay was first and for...

Carlos J. Finlay y Barrés (1833-1915).

Médico y biólogo cubano. Estudió en Estados Unidos, graduándose en 1855 por el Jefferson Medical College de Filadelfia, para volver después a Cuba. Ya en 1868 propuso la adopción de medidas profilácticas y sanitarias durante una epidemia de cólera, sin mucho éxito. Sin embargo, su principal trabajo consistió en dilucidar cómo se producía la transmisión de la fiebre amarilla por los mosquitos. C...

Carlos Finaly's Contribution to the Epidemiology of Yellow Fever *

Yellow fever.

1MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. MSc in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP). PhD in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, FMUSP. Fellow American College of Physicians, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelit...

Yellow fever