Jesse William Lazear
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|birth_date = [[2 May]] [[1866]]
|birth_place = [[Baltimore]]
|death_date = [[26 September]] [[1900]]
|death_place = [[Quemados]], [[Cuba]]
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'''Jesse William Lazear''' ([[2 May]] [[1866]], [[Baltimore]] - [[26 September]] [[1900]] in [[Quemados]], [[Cuba]]) was an [[United States|American]] physician<ref>{{Citation
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|title=Jesse William Lazear: the successful experimental transmission of yellow fever by the mosquito.
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|publication-date=1901 Aug 9
|year=[[1901]]
|title=JESSE WILLIAM LAZEAR MEMORIAL.
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|publication-date=1900 Dec 14
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He was the son of William and Charlotte née Pettigrew. He attended [[Washington & Jefferson College]] <ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_200109/ai_n8978619 Biography of Jesse W. Lazear | Military Medicine | Find Articles at BNET.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and obtained his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[1889]] from [[Johns Hopkins University]] and his PhD in Medicine in [[1892]] from the Medical School at the [[Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons]]. He did his specialization in [[Paris]] at the [[Institut Pasteur]]. In [[1896]] he married Mabel Houston with whom he had two children.
He was a physician at the [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] in [[Baltimore]] starting in [[1895]]; he studied [[malaria]] and [[yellow fever]]. In [[1900]] he reported for duty as the assistant surgeon at Columbia Barracks (Quemados) for the [[United States Army]].
After a few months in Quemados, Lazear, together with [[Walter Reed]] (1851-1902), [[James Carroll (scientist)|James Carroll]] (1854-1907) and [[Aristides Agramonte]] (1869-1931), participated in a commission studying the transmission of [[yellow fever]], the Yellow Fever Board. During his research at Camp Colombia, he discovered that [[mosquito]]s transmitted this disease. A portion of his study, though, had been conducted on himself: without telling his colleagues, he had allowed himself to be bitten by yellow fever-infected mosquitoes and died of the disease at age 34. A dormitory at Johns Hopkins University was named after him in honor of his sacrifice, as was the chemistry building at Washington & Jefferson College, Lazear's alma mater.
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