[DOC] [TLE] Walter Reed - Wikipedia [PAR] Major Walter Reed, M.D., U.S. Army, (September 13, 1851  November 22, 1902) 
was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that postulated and 
confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito 
species, ... He proved that yellow fever among enlisted men stationed near the 
Potomac... [DOC] [TLE] Circular No. 5: Yellow Fever Prevention and Control - US Army ... [PAR] May 16, 2009 ... U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History ... The first directive for 
the prevention and control of yellow fever, based upon ... of the Surgeon-General, 
a board of medical officers consisting of Maj. ... of yellow fever by the bite of 
mosquitoes having been proved by ... 6, Department of Cuba, 1900. [DOC] [TLE] 9. public health in cuba - US Army medical Department, Office of ... [PAR] Aug 31, 2009 ... Scientists still tended to look on yellow fever as a disease linked in some way 
with poor sanitation. .... Under him, medical officers strove to improve sanitation 
and educate the ... By mid-1900 six Army surgeons were assigned as municipal 
..... Reed undertook to prove that the mosquito spread yellow fever. [DOC] [TLE] disease - US Army medical Department, Office of Medical History [PAR] May 16, 2009 ... In May 1898, the United States Army had been increased to ... To investigate and 
report on the origin and spread of this disease, and on ... General in August 1898 
secured the appointment of a board of medical officers. ..... in domestic 
environments; (2) prevention of mosquitoes from biting yellow fever... [DOC] [TLE] Walter Reed Biography from Walter Reed Memoir (1904) [PAR] American military surgeon, pathologist and bacteriologist who led the 
experiments that proved that yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito. 
... a young medical officer of the army, he served in Arizona, Nebraska, Dakota, 
and in the ... In June, 1900, Major Reed was sent to Cuba as president of a board 
to study the... [DOC] [TLE] National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM): U.S. Army Maj ... [PAR] May 14, 2012 ... He took his post as curator of the Army Medical Museum (now the National ... a 
board of officers headed by Reed to investigate the problem of typhoid fever. ... 
prevalent at almost all U.S. Army encampments, was spread most .... in order for 
a mosquito to become infected, it had to bite a yellow fever patient... [DOC] [TLE] American Experience | The Great Fever | PBS [PAR] Sep 29, 2006 ... In 1900, Walter Reed led a team of Army researchers to Cuba to determine ... Dr. 
John R. Pierce, U.S. Army Medical Corps: There was no way to protect yourself 
from it. .... But neither sanitation nor quarantine would prove to be enough. ... he 
deduced that yellow fever was spread by this particular mosquito. [DOC] [TLE] [Centenary of the discovery of yellow fever virus and its transmission ... [PAR] ... of yellow fever virus and its transmission by a mosquito (Cuba 1900-1901)]. ... 
Cuba, leading to direct consequences for tropical medicine, public health and ... 
There, the U.S. Army yellow fever commission headed by Walter Reed proved 
that ... idea that vomito negro would be spread by mosquito bites was not a new 
one. [DOC] [TLE] Walter Reed facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Reed then went to New York to study at the medical school of Bellevue ... In 1900 
Reed was appointed head of an army board to investigate the causes of ... In the 
United States yellow fever was an annual scourge; the disease swept up the ... 
aegypti mosquito can become infected by biting a victim of yellow fever only... [DOC] [TLE] U.S. Army Physicians Discovered the Cause of Yellow Fever [PAR] Medical staff at work, Walter Reed Hospital ... No one knew what caused the 
often-deadly yellow fever, but it occurred in epidemic proportions, with one ... On 
August 27, 1900, Carroll allowed an infected mosquito to feed on him. ... but 
helped his colleague

Question: In 1900, this U.S. Army medical officer proved yellow fever is spread by mosquito bites
Answer: Walter Reed