Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti.
Carlos Finlay
El Obelisco, Finlay's memorial in Havana
The Finlay Medical History Museum in Havana in 2016
"History Museum of the Medical Sciences ' Carlos J. Finlay', created by the Revolutionary Government in eternal homage to the men who contributed to the advance of the sciences in Cuba. National Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Cuba. Havana, 13 June 1962."
Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 333,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province.
Camagüey
Church of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Camagüey, in the late 19th-century.
Colonial Church of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad.
Puerto del Príncipe (current Camagüey) being sacked in 1668 by Henry Morgan, depicted by John Masefield.