Family
His father was a travelling Methodist minister.
Who is Lemuel Sutton Reed?
He was made curator of this institution.
What is the Army Medical Museum?
He was recruited by which country to study diseases and investigate thyroid fever as thousands of soldiers.
What is Cuba?
During most of the 19th century, it had been widely held that yellow fever was spread by ____ as bedding and clothing that had been used by a yellow-fever patient.
What are fomites?
In 1909 this place was built in his honour because of the significant work that he did in researching yellow fever.
What is the Walter Reed Army Medical Center?
She gave him two children.
Who is Emilie Lawrence?
Graduated from this school with a medical degree at the age of 17.
What is the University of Virginia medical school?
On the completion of the committee’s work in 1899, he returned to his duties in
What is Washington?
Once contracted, the yellow fever virus incubates in the body for 3 to 6 days. These are the most common symptoms.
What is a fever?
What is muscle pain?
What is a headache?
He died November 22, 1902, in Washington, D.C. due to this.
What is peritonitis (ruptured appendix)?
He spent most of his childhood growing up with his mother's side of the family.
Who is Pharaba White?
Furthered his studies and was successful in attaining another MD degree at the age of 18 here.
What is New York University's Bellevue Medical Hospital?
During this war, he was appointed chairman of a committee to investigate a spread in 1898
What is the Spanish-American War?
On this date Carroll allowed an infected mosquito to feed on him and helped Walter Reed, prove that mosquitoes transmitted the feared disease.
When was August 27, 1900?
Reed proved that an attack of yellow fever was caused by the bite of an infected mosquito.
What is the Stegomyia fasciata (later renamed Aedes aegypti)?
After marrying Emilie Lawrence in this year, Reed was transferred to ________ _______in ________
When was April 1876?
Where is Fort Lowell in Arizona?
He seized the opportunity given to him to study bacteriology and pathology here under men who would become giants of American medicine
What is Johns Hopkins University
Reed and his colleagues showed that contact with faecal matter and food or drink caused that epidemic.
What are contaminated flies?
U.S. Army physician____________ ________ endangered his own health in the name of science
Who is James Carroll?
Reed and Carroll published their first report in these years and submitted a complete report for publication.
It showed that _____ ____belonged to the group of the hog-cholera bacillus and was in yellow fever a secondary invader.
When was April 1899 and in February 1900?
What is Sanarelli’s bacillus?
This was the year of his birth and place of birth
When was September 13, 1851?
Where is Belroi, Virginia?
Professor of __________ and went on to become a professor of bacteriology at the ________ ______________ _____________.
What is clinical microscopy?
What is George Washington University?
During the Spanish-American War of 1898, he investigated the spread in military camps.
What is typhoid fever?
In ___________ the Cuban physician and epidemiologist __________ ____ _______ began to formulate a theory of insect transmission. In succeeding years he maintained and developed the theory but did not succeed in proving it.
When was 1881?
Who is Carlos Juan Finlay?
Apart from a medical centre, these two institutions were named after him.
What is the Walter Reed General Hospital and the Walter Reed Middle school?