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 * Scholastic - Latinos in History
 * FactMonster.com
 * [|Wikipedia]

=**Carlos Juan Finlay**=

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Carlos Juan Finlay was born in December 3, 1833 in Camagüey Cuba. In 1855 he graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his studies in Havana, Cuba and in Paris, France. Soon after he completed his studies he settled in Havana ,Cuba and opened a medical practice that would soon lead to his discovery of a vaccination for the yellow fever. ======

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His first theory was that the mosquito was a carrier of the disease called yellow fever. Yellow fever was an acute, often fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by an RNA virus transmitted by a mosquito, especially Aedes Aegypti, and often causing liver damage and jaundice. Jaundice causes yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood. He could not prove that the mosquito was the cause of yellow fever so many scientists did not believe him. He was mocked by his fellow scientists, he was often called "the mosquito man". His hypothesis was confirmed 20 years later by Walter Reed. After that Finlay became the chief health officer of Cuba from 1902 to 1909. Dr. Reed got much of the credit for proving that mosquitoes were the cause of yellow fever but he still gave credit to Finlay for first starting that theory. ======

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Even tho Dr. Reed received most of the credit, Finlay was honored by building a monument in the city of Havana. The monument was built in the shape of a syringe because he helped find a cure for yellow fever. The monument is called El Obelisco or The Obelisk, he was also on a Cuban stamp in 1981. He also has a statue of himself on the bayfront in Panama City near the canal he helped make. Carlos Juan Finlay died on August 20,1915 at the age of 81, he died from a stroke.======

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