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moved to cuba
Dr. Finlay's father Edward Finlay had moved to Cuba. Where he had meet Eliza de Barrés. Then later on they got married. -
Dr. Carlos Finlay baby
Dr. Carlos Finlay was born December 3, 1833. He lived in Camaguey, Cuba with his mother Eliza Isabel de Barrés and his father Edward Finlay. His real name was Juan Carlos Finlay. -
typhoid fever
He developed severe chorea which left him with a speech impediment (a lisp) that he never lost. In 1851, having returned home to Cuba, he nearly died of typhoid fever. -
graduated
graduated of Jefferson Medical College. He returned to Cuba his home town, where he practiced medicine in Matanzas and Havana, and got his medical degree. -
children
FInlay married Adela Shine. Then had three children Charles Finlay, George Finlay, and Frank Finlay. -
the theory of yellow fever
Dr. Finlay sent a paper to the Academy of Sciences in Havana outlining his theory on weather conditions and the yellow fever disease. -
Yellow fever
Finlay published experimental evidence that mosquitoes carry yellow fever. -
Cuban government
24 years later in 1879 Dr. Finlay was appointed by the Cuban government to work with the North Americans to study the causes of yellow fever. Two years later he was chosen to attend the fifth International Sanitary Conference in Washington, D.C., as the Cuban representative. At the conference he said that the carrier of yellow fever was the mosquito. -
Walter Reed
Finlay was appointed chief sanitation officer of Cuba, when the physician Walter Reed, arrived in Cuba, and Finlay tried to persuade Reed of his mosquito-vector theory. Then still in 1900 Reed made proof that mosquitoes really do transfer yellow fever. -
died
Dr. Finlay died in Havana Cuba. Finlay lived to be 82 years old. -
coin
This coin was issued between 1975 and 1982. It is a copper-nickel coin minted in Panama -
Institute
After his death the Finlay Institute for Investigations in Tropical Medicine was created in his honour by the Cuban government.