Walter Reed
Walter Reed
Major Walter Reed, M.D., U.S. Army,was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 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 Canalby the United States. Reed followed work started by Carlos Finlay and directed by George Miller Sternberg...
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Date of Birth13 September 1851
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I feel very lucky just to be here today.
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specimens of morbid anatomy ... together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed.
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If I'm watching television and the cable goes out, I tell myself, 'OK, I'll read a book. Family matters, not possessions.'
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If it happens, it happens... We can't stop living.
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