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Reed then enrolled at the [[New York University]]'s [[Bellevue Hospital Center|Bellevue Hospital Medical College]] in Manhattan, New York, where he obtained a second M.D. in 1870, as his brother Christopher attempted to set up a legal practice. After interning at several New York City hospitals, Walter Reed worked for the New York Board of Health until 1875.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}
He married Emily Blackwell Lawrence (1856–1950) of North Carolina on April 26, 1876, and took her West with him. Later, Emily gave birth to a son, [[Walter Lawrence Reed]] (1877–1956) and a daughter, Emily Lawrence Reed (1883–1964). While posted at frontier camps, the couple also adopted a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] girl named Susie.<ref>{{cite book |last=Crosby |first=Molly Caldwell |year=2006 |title=The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History |page=134 |location=New York |publisher=[[Berkley Books]] |isbn=0-425-21202-5}}</ref>
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[[File:Dr Walter Reed 1940 Issue-5c.jpg|thumb|right|150px|'''''Walter Reed'''''<br />[[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States#Famous Americans Series of 1940|Issue of 1940]]]]
Reed's breakthrough in yellow fever research is widely considered a milestone in biomedicine, opening new vistas of research and humanitarianism. It was largely an extension of Carlos J. Finlay's work, carried out during the 1870s in Cuba, which finally came to prominence in 1900. Finlay was the first to theorize, in 1881, that a mosquito was a carrier, now known as a disease vector, of the organism causing yellow fever: a mosquito that bites a victim of the disease could subsequently bite and thereby infect a healthy person. He presented this theory at the 1881 International Sanitary Conference, where it was well
This discovery helped [[William C. Gorgas]] reduce the incidence and prevalence of mosquito-borne diseases in Panama during the American campaign, from 1903 onwards, to construct the Panama Canal. Prior to this, about 10% of the workforce had died each year from malaria and yellow fever.
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