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I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

Way back in 2014, we did an episode on Walter Reed, which we reran as a Saturday

classic, maybe three-ish years ago.

Walter Reed was a U.S. Army physician who was most known for his work on illnesses that

were really affecting soldiers in the Caribbean,

especially yellow fever.

In that episode, we talked about how Reed's work was really based on that of a Cuban doctor named Carlos Juan Finlay.

I'm going to take a pronunciation moment here because I think a lot of people in English-speaking

countries pronounce that name, which is spelled F-I-N-L-A-Y as Finley.

But everything I found from an institute named after him and some things from Spanish

speakers in Cuba pronounced it more like Finlay, so that's what we are going with. So Finlay had

already figured out a lot of what Reed and his team confirmed, and then we're pretty much

giving credit for. I've always wanted to talk more about Finlay, and now we are, finally.

Juan Carlos Finlay was born on December 3, 1833.

He was born in Camagway in central Cuba, which was at the time known as Santa Maria del Puerto del

Princepe.

He went by Carlos, and later on in his life started using Jay as his middle initial to differentiate

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