Carlos Juan Finlay was born I Puerto Principe, Cuba back in 1833 to Edward and Elisa. He attended school in France but was forced to return to Cuba when he contracted cholera. After recovering he returned to Europe in 1848, only to contract typhoid fever forcing him to once again return to Cuba.
Not wanting to take another chance he enrolled at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1855. He returned to Havana where he set up an ophthalmology practice in 1857. He had a theory about something that he presented to the International Sanitary Conference in 1881. He became the chief health officer of Cuba from 1902-1909. He died in Havana in 1915, he was 81.
Now let’s get to his theory. He was the first person to determine that yellow fever was transmitted through mosquitoes. Of course, that will forever put him in the medical history books.
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