Walter Reed
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American physician and medical researcher
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Walter Reed's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Why Is Walter Reed Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Reed was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay 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 by the United States. Reed followed work started by Finlay and directed by George Miller Sternberg, who has been called the "first U.S. bacteriologist".
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