Walter Reed
1851-1902
Medical officer in the United States Army who helped demonstrate how to control yellow and typhoid fevers. Between 1898 and 1901 Reed led two commissions to study the origin and ...
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Walter Reed
1851-1902
American physician, military surgeon, and epidemiologist whose discovery in 1900 that the aedes aegypti mosquito is the vector of yellow fever soon led to the control and conques...
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Walter Reed (1851-1902), American military surgeon and head of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, is widely known as the man who conquered yellow fever by tracing its origin to a particular mosqui...
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Walter Reed, an Army surgeon and medical researcher, helped discover that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever, an infectious, sometimes fatal, disease. During his career, Reed also made contributions ...
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Walter Reed is best known for his research demonstrating that the mosquito is responsible for transmitting yellow fever from infected humans to uninfected humans. In its emphasis on sound scientific m...
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Walter Reed is best known for his research demonstrating that the mosquito is responsible for transmitting yellow fever from infected humans to uninfected humans. In its emphasis on sound scientific m...
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Walter Reed
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
Walter Reed