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Walter Reed

Reed, Walter (1851–1902), U.S. Army pathologist and bacteriologist who demonstrated (1900) the role of the mosquito Aëdes aegypti as a carrier of yellow fever, so enabling the disease to be controlled.

See also: Pathology; Yellow fever.

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