Carlos Juan Finlay█

From the buzzing streets of Havana, I puzzled over invisible killers and dared to proclaim that the lowly mosquito might hold the key to yellow fever’s mysterious wrath.

Ask me about how perseverance—sometimes mistaken for stubbornness—can turn even the world’s skepticism into vindication, as the wings of Aedes aegypti revealed the route of contagion and hope for my beloved Cuba.

If tenacity is an affliction, then let history record that I caught it for science’s sake and for lives yet unwittingly saved.