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Medicina & Laboratorio 2014; 20 (01-02)

Carlos Juan Finlay, the Latin American Pasteur

Restrepo-López J, Vélez-Hoyos A

Language: Spanish
References: 14
Page: 95-98
PDF size: 251.19 Kb.


ABSTRACT

This article summarise briefly the biography of Carlos Juan Finlay, who is considered the Latin American Pasteur and the most important researcher of yellow fever. Carlos Finlay was born in 1883 in Puerto Principe, Cuba. He studied at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where completed a degree in medicine in 1855. At 1881, describes for the first time that the transmitting of yellow fever is cause by the bite of a mosquito, and 20 years later, contributes to the American Commission of Yellow Fever, showing the role of mosquito on the disease, guiding practical methods to eradicate yellow fever. Subsequently, Finlay went to Panama to help to fight the infectious diseases in workers who built the canal. The August 19, 1915 died at his home in Vedado in Havana, Cuba.


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