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 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Finlay_Carlos_1833-1915.jpg width="169" height="255"]]
 * he found that mosquitoes caused yellow fever (scholastic)
 * yellow fever killed thousands of people (scholastic)
 * he worked with Walter reed (scholastic)
 * born December 3, 1833 & died August 20, 1915 (Wikipedia)
 * when he did he 81 years old (google)
 * Finlay died from a stroke at his home in Havana, Cuba (Wikipedia)
 * Finlay served as chief health officer of Cuba from 1902 to 1909.(Wikipedia)
 * years later scientist found that he was right about mosquitoes cause yellow fever and killed thousands.( Wikipedia)
 * finlay Was a Cuban physician and scientist that went to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1853 and graduated in 1855. ||  || **Name of History Maker ** ||
 * ^  |||| Carlos Juan Finlay

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chandler thomas

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Carlos Juan Finlay was a very clever and smart man if it wasn't for him we might not have found out that mosquitoes caused yellow fever or the medicine. carlos was born on December 3 1833 and died on august 20 1915. he had kid (Frank Finlay, George Finlay, Charles Finlay) and his spouse is Adela shine (google). Carlos went to Thomas Jefferson university in 1853 and left in 1855.Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Camagüey Cuba on December 3, 1833 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.his parents where Edward finlay, eliza isebal de barres.  Walter Reed was a physician who in 1901 led the team that postulated also confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species, rather than by direct contact.

 Carlos also worked with walter reed, 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 1881 Carlos was invited to speak at the national sanitary conference of Washington D.C. Because the germ theory had been accepted and scientists in Europe were finding out new things about diseases his theory that mosquitoes were the cause of yellow fever was accepted.Carlos finally received his medical degree in March 10, 1855. Even though Mitchell tried to convince Carlos to stay in America and support the majority of Latinos in New York Carlos decided to go back to South America .His experiment was letting mosquitoes feed on victims of yellow fever during its early stage and let the mosquitoes bite volunteers. finlay served as chief health officer of cuba from 1902 to 1909. Walter Reed once wrote in a letter to his wife, “It was Finlay’s theory, and he deserves much for having suggested it” After Carlos was named Chief of Health of the republic and the president of the superior commission of health in 1902, he went on to stop the high death rate of infants infected with tetanus.

Finlay was also one of several nineteenth-century bacteriologists who mistakenly believed that they had isolated a specific microbial cause of yellow fever (shown, in the 1930s by Max Theiler, to be a virus), but Finlay's //tetragenus //, like Guiseppe Sanarelli's //Bacillus Icteroides //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and Domingo Freire's //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">micrococcus //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, proved to be a harmless contaminant. Finlay served as president of the Cuban Board of Health for several years in the early twentieth century. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">However, he failed to produce experimental yellow fever in human volunteers by exposing them to mosquitoes fed on yellow fever patients, possibly because he did not recognize the long incubation period of the yellow fever agent inside the mosquito.

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. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;">A graduate of Jefferson Medical College, philidelphia <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;">(1855), he returned to Cuba, where he practiced medicine in Matanzas and Havana. In 1879 Finlay was appointed by the Cuban government to work with the North American commission studying the causes of yellow fever<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;">, and two years later he was chosen to attend the fifth International Sanitary Conference in Washington, D.C., as the Cuban delegate. At the conference, Finlay urged the study of yellow fever vectors, and soon afterward he stated that the carrier was the mosquito //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; vertical-align: baseline;">Culex fasciatus, //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;"> now known as //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aedes aegypti //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;">. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">On August 14, 1881, Finlay presented a paper to Havana's Academy of Sciences called "The Mosquito Hypothetically Considered as the Transmitting Agent of Yellow Fever," concluding: "I understand but too well that nothing less than an absolutely incontrovertible demonstration will be required before the generality of my colleagues accept a theory so entirely at variance with the ideas which have until now prevailed about yellow fever." He was correct about that, as evidenced by the stony silence that followed his presentation and the "universal ridicule" he received thereafter, as his son would recall.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Carlos Finlay." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 05 Jan. 2014. Web. 02 May 2014. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Finlay>. <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;"> <span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Hispanic Heritage Discovery History Makers Born Before 1900." //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Hispanic Heritage Discovery History Makers Born Before 1900 //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 May 2014. <http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/history1.htm>
 * its from people involved in science.
 * it is writen by teachers.

<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Carlos J. Finlay (Cuban Physician)." //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Encyclopedia Britannica Online //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 02 May 2014. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/207556/Carlos-J-Finlay>. <span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Carlos Finlay - Google Search." //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Carlos Finlay - Google Search //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 May 2014. <https://www.google.com/search?q=carlos+finlay&oq=carlos+finlay&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j0l4.4774j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8>.
 * encyclopidia has goood info.
 * google has good info.

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 * he found that mosquitoes caused yellow fever (scholastic)
 * yellow fever killed thousands of people (scholastic)
 * he worked with Walter reed (scholastic)
 * born December 3, 1833 & died August 20, 1915 (Wikipedia)
 * when he did he 81 years old (google)
 * Finlay died from a stroke at his home in Havana, Cuba (Wikipedia)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #330066; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Finlay served as chief health officer of Cuba from 1902 to 1909.(Wikipedia)
 * years later scientist found that he was right about mosquitoes cause yellow fever and killed thousands.( Wikipedia)
 * finlay Was a Cuban physician and scientist that went to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1853 and graduated in 1855.