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One solved the mystery of yellow fever, another fought sterilization abuse, and a third delved deep into human genes. Still others reenvisioned addiction, served as U.

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we share the outstanding stories of men and women who improved health across the nation and around the world. Yellow fever is a horrible disease, causing such terrifying symptoms as bleeding from the mouth, vomiting, and organ failure. By the late s, intermittent outbreaks had taken somelives in the United States, and Facex Cuba, where Carlos Finlay was born, it was a near-constant terror.

After graduating from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, inFinlay was drawn to numerous topics, but he found none so compelling as exploring the cause of yellow fever. At the time, experts thought they Hsipanics the culprit : filth in the Barriers Faced By Hispanics During The U or on clothing.

Finlay, on the other hand, noticed intriguing correlations between yellow fever epidemics and increases in the mosquito population. Inhe presented his mosquitos-as-vectors theory to scientific conferences in Havana and Washington, D. Inthe United States wrested Cuba from Spain in the Spanish-American War, but its troops suffered more deaths from infectious diseases than from combat.

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Desperate, the U. Army turned to Finlay for help and was able to greatly reduce outbreaks by applying some of his ideas about mosquito controlsuch as destroying larvae in stagnant water. William Gorgas, MD, who headed public health efforts there and would later serve as U. Face the same determination that propelled him past those obstacles allowed him to help countless others. Barbosa was undeterred.

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Inhe graduated with honors from the University of Michigan as the Bareiers Puerto Rican to receive a medical degree in the United States. Barbosa went on to care for soldiers during the Spanish-American War throu gh the Red Cross and to treat many poor patients across Puerto Rico. Barbosa even articulated a need for employer-based health care insurancewhich was a radical idea at the time. Later in his career, Barbosa founded a party that urged U. Decades later, Ochoa would himself enter the halls of Nobel fame.]