Carlos Juan Finlay (dec 3, 1833 – aug 20, 1915)
Description:
The Cuban epidemiologist who discovered that mosquitos transmit yellow fever from infected to healthy humans. Despite the fact that he published experimental evidence of this discovery in 1886, his ideas were ignored for the next 20 years.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlos-J-Finlay
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Date:
dec 3, 1833
aug 20, 1915
~ 81 years