#3 of 3 Things To Do in Chesapeake Bay Walter Reed Birthplace 4021 Hickory Fork Rd Gloucester VA - 804-693-7452 ~28.97 miles from Chesapeake Bay city center Hotels Close to Walter Reed Birthplace Major Walter Reed, M.D., (September 13, 1851 – November 23, 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team which postulated and confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, rather than by direct contact. This insight gave impetus to the new fields of epidemiology and biomedicine, and most immediately allowed the resumption and completion of work on the Panama Canal (1904–1914) by the United States.Walter Reed was born in Belroi, Virginia, to Lemuel Sutton Reed (a Methodist minister) and Pharaba White. They later moved to Lebanon, Missouri, a city in Laclede County.After two year-long classes at the University of Virginia, Reed completed the M.D. degree in 1869, at the age of 18. He then enrolled at the New York University's Bellevue Hospital Medica... |