Carlos Juan Finlay
1833 – 1915 · Cuba · Medicine
Identified the mosquito as the vector of yellow fever.
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- Louis Pasteur
1822 – 1895 · Chemistry, Medicine
Germ theory made a vector hypothesis for yellow fever conceivable.
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- Oswaldo Cruz
1872 – 1917 · Medicine
Finlay's mosquito hypothesis is the basis of Cruz's Rio yellow-fever campaign.
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