What is Carlos Finlay?
{{unreferenced|date=October 2012}} [[File:Finlay Carlos 1833-1915.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Carlos Juan Finlay]] '''Carlos Juan Finlay''' (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a [[Cuba]]n [[physician]] and [[scientist]] who started the interest in [[yellow fever]] research. ==Early life and education== Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay y Barres, in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Cuba. His family is of French and Scottish heritage. In 1853 he went to Jefferson Medical college in [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1855. He finished his studies in [[Havana]] and in [[Paris]]. Later he moved to Havana and started a medical practice. ==Professional career== Finlay continued his work in the 1870s. He was the first to come up with the idea that a [[mosquito]] was a carrier for a disease that causes yellow fever. He discovered that the spread and cause of yellow fever was from a mosquito. The mosquito would bite a person with the disease and would then bite and infect a healthy person. A year later Finlay identified the mosquito of the genus Aedes as the [[insect]] transmitting yellow fever. His research led to the control of the mosquito population as a way to control the spread of the disease. Dr. Finlay was a member of Havana's Royal Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences. He was fluent in [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], and [[English language|English]], and could read [[Latin]]. He was interested in a lot of things but his main interest was yellow fever. He wrote 40 articles on this disease. His theory was that an intermediary host was responsible for the spread of the disease. As a result of his work, Dr. Finlay was nominated seven times for the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]], but it was never awarded to him. He received the National Order of the Legion of Honour of [[France]] in 1908. In 1990, the Walter Reed Commission confirmed what Carlos found. Reed was known to all as being the one that discovered the connection of ye