Physicians who traced how diseases spread and stopped them: John Snow with the Broad Street pump, Walter Reed and Carlos Finlay with yellow fever and the mosquito, and Oswaldo Cruz with sanitation campaigns in Brazil. A person belongs here when the cited article describes an epidemiologist or a leader of disease control. It excludes founders of health services for mothers, children and blood donation.
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John Huxham (Wikipedia)
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from 1728 on until 1748, he noted monthly the prevalence of epidemic diseases
Ernst Rodenwaldt (source article)
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He then examined the intensity of infection and identified that the parasites were spread by mosquitoes
August Hirsch (Wikipedia)
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In 1873, he was a member of the German Cholera Commission
Jean Noël Hallé (source article)
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initiated studies and awareness involving the multiple issues that involve hygiene, such as contagious diseases, health in the workplace
Wikipedia: Carlos Finlay
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Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833, August 20, 1915) was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti.
John Snow (Wikipedia)
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He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho, which he identified as a particular public water pump.
Oswaldo Cruz (Wikipedia)
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Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ozˈvawdu ˈkɾus]; August 5, 1872, February 11, 1917), was a Brazilian physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.
Walter Reed (Wikipedia)
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Walter Reed (September 13, 1851, November 23, 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban-American doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than by direct contact.
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