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Revista Cubana de Higiene y Epidemiología

versión impresa ISSN 0253-1751versión On-line ISSN 1561-3003

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TOLEDO CURBELO, Gabriel J.. Dr. Carlos J. Finlay y de Barré, primer epidemiólogo de América Latina. Rev Cubana Hig Epidemiol [online]. 1998, vol.36, n.3, pp.200-210. ISSN 0253-1751.

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how with a difference of 13 years Dr. John Sonw in England, in 1854, and Dr. Carlos J. Finlay y de Barré in Cuba, in 1867, used the same reasoning and the same approach that later will be know as epidemiological to solve disease outbreaks. The first epidemic occurred in Broad Street in Soho, a district of London, England, and the second one in the district of Cerro, outside Havana, Cuba. Only 13 years separated these great scientists in the utilization of the scientific method in its particular form, the Epidemiological Method, to investigate and resolve a severe problem that affected public health and that was connected with cholers this time. If that fact allowed John Snow to be considered as the "Father of modern epidemiology", with which we completely agree, we demand that Dr. Carlos J. Finlay y de Barré, who used the scientific method for the first time in Latin America to investigate and face an extremely serious health problem that was taking place in Cuba, be considered as the "First Latin American epidemiologist".

Palabras clave : CHOLERA [epidemiology]; CHOLERA [transmission]; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS.

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