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Granted that Wikipedia is not the most reliable site, but their entry for Walter Reed starts as follows: Major Walter Reed, M.D., U.S. Army, (September 13, 1851 – November 22, 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that postulated and confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species, 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. Reed followed work started by Carlos Finlay and directed by George Miller Sternberg ("first U.S. bacteriologist").

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And Gorgas took Reed’s concepts of mosquito transmission and applied it to Panama. He was obviously dead by the time most of the Panama work even started. But they are generally lumped together as part of the solution to malaria as well as yellow fever.

The point is, they both were WAY outside the “consensus.”