Walter Reed
(1851-1902)
US Army physician and medical researcher
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Major Walter Reed (September 13, 1851 – November 22, 1902), was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901, led the team that confirmed the theory of the Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species, rather than by direct contact. This insight gave impetus to the new fields of epidemiology and biomedicine, and most immediately allowed the resumption and completion of work on the Panama Canal (1904–1914) by the United States. Reed followed work started by Carlos Finlay and directed by George Miller Sternberg, who has been called the "first U.S. bacteriologist".
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13 September 1851 Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
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| Died |
23 November 1902 (aged 51) Washington, D.C.
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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