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 * carlos juan finlay was born in 1833 puerto principe (now Camagüey) (wikipedia)
 * Was a Cuban physician and scientist that went to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1853 and graduated in 1855.(wikipedia)
 * he graduated in 1855 (wikipedia)
 * when he settled in the Havana he began his life work on yellow fever (factmonster)
 * he died August 20, 1915 (aged 81) (factmonster)
 * he solved the mystery of the yellow fever (scholastic)
 * he has a memorial in Havanah called El Obelisco(wikipedia)
 * finlay died from a stroke at his home in Havanah(wikipedia)
 * After that he moved to Havana, Cuba and opened a medical practice.(wikipedia)
 * he is on a 1981 Cuban stamp(wikipedia)
 * he attended University of VirginiaCarlos Juan Finlay was born in Cuba in the year 1833.(factmonster)
 * He found the cure to the disease known as yellow fever.(factmonster)
 * Finlay died August 20, 1915 in Havana, Cuba at the age of 81 from a stroke.(wikipedia)
 * His idea was that if you could control the mosquitoe population it would control the amount of people that would become infected with yellow fever.(wikipedia)
 * Walter Reed, another important physician would help Finlay conquer the disease of yellow fever.(factmonster)
 * When Finlay was the first to theorize that mosquitoes carried a disease called yellow fever and that it could infect anybody who was bitten by the mosquito.(wikipedia)
 * When they conquered the disease General Leonard Wood congratulated Finlay by saying Finlay's greatest step was the best since Edward Jenner's cure for smallpox.(factmonster)
 * In the city of Havana there is an obselisk dedicated to Finlay.(factmonster)

Latino Essay

Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Cuba December 3, 1833. All his life trying to find the cure to the yellow fever.Carlos attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1853 and graduated in 1855.His idea was that if you could control the mosquitoe population it would control the amount of people that would become infected withyellow fever.His partner was Walter Reed. Walter Reed was born September 13, 1851. He died on November 23, 1902, almost two years to the day from the opening of Camp Lazear and the stunning experimental victory there. In November 1902, Reed developed what had been for him recurring gastro-intestinal trouble. The yellow fever was caused The disease is caused by the yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of the female mosquito. It only infects humans, other primates and several species of mosquito. In cities it is primarily spread by mosquitoes of the Aedasaegypti species. The virus is an RNA virus of the genus Flavivirus.  He was one of the seven children born to Scottish physician Edward Finlay he spent his childhood on a coffee plantation and was taught by his paternal aunt who had started a school in Scotland. In 1844 he was sent to a school in La Harve France, unfortunately he suffered from an attack of cholera for two years and was not able to go to that school he tried to get back into school another two times but was stopped by political turmoil and an attack of typhoid. In 1900 the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Board, which was headed by the physician Walter Reed, arrived in Cuba, and Finlay attempted to persuade Reed of his mosquito-vector theory. Although skeptical, Reed decided to investigate the idea, refining Finlay’s experimental procedures in the process. Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Cuba December 3, 1833. All his life trying to find the cure to the yellow fever.Carlos attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1853 and graduated in 1855.His idea was that if you could control the mosquitoe population it would control the amount of people that would become infected withyellow fever.His partner was Walter Reed. Walter Reed was born September 13, 1851. He died on November 23, 1902, almost two years to the day from the opening of Camp Lazear and the stunning experimental victory there. In November 1902, Reed developed what had been for him recurring gastro-intestinal trouble. The yellow fever was caused The disease is caused by the yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of the female mosquito. It only infects humans, other primates and several species of mosquito. In cities it is primarily spread by mosquitoes of the Aedasaegypti species. The virus is an RNA virus of the genus Flavivirus.  He was one of the seven children born to Scottish physician Edward Finlay he spent his childhood on a coffee plantation and was taught by his paternal aunt who had started a school in Scotland. In 1844 he was sent to a school in La Harve France, unfortunately he suffered from an attack of cholera for two years and was not able to go to that school he tried to get back into school another two times but was stopped by political turmoil and an attack of typhoid. In 1900 the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Board, which was headed by the physician Walter Reed, arrived in Cuba, and Finlay attempted to persuade Reed of his mosquito-vector theory. Although skeptical, Reed decided to investigate the idea, refining Finlay’s experimental procedures in the process.Carlos Juan Finlay got his own memorial in havana.

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"Carlos Finlay." //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Wikipedia //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. Wikimedia Foundation, 05 Jan. 2014. Web. 02 May 2014. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Finlay>.
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<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Carlos J. Finlay." //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Carlos J. Finlay //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 May 2014. <http://yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu/reed/finlay.html>. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Celebrate Hispanic Heritage! Latinos in History." //Celebrate Hispanic Heritage! Latinos in History//. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 May 2014. <http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/history.htm>.
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