Walter Reed, American Army Physican

Walter Reed, (1851-1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team that postulated and confirmed the theory 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

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Acute Aedes Aegypti Biomedicine Commission Completion Epidemiology Fever Flaviviridae Hemorrhagic Mosquito Panama Resumption Transmission Transmitted Viral Virus

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