Walter Myers BSc, MA, MB BChir, MRCS, LRCP (28 March 1872 – 20 January 1901) was a British physician, toxicologist and parasitologist who died of yellow fever aged 28 while studying the disease in Brazil.

[5] In June 1900 under the auspices of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Myers accompanied fellow eminent Cambridge scientist, Dr Herbert Durham who led the Yellow Fever Expedition to Brazil.

[2][3][6][11] In 1881 the Cuban epidemiologist Dr Carlos Finlay was the first to theorise that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes, but this remained unproven in the wider scientific community.

[8][11] Among Reed's team was bacteriologist Dr Jesse Lazear who died a month later on 26 September aged 34 after deliberately allowing an infected mosquito bite him in order to study the disease.

[11] Durham and Myers were aware of the risks that they were taking; however, on 16 January 1901, after conducting the fourteenth autopsy on victims of yellow fever both men found they were themselves infected.

When you receive more detailed particulars from Dr Durham, may I ask you to kindly communicate them to me?Those who follow the development of pathological investigation in this country had looked forward to much and most valuable work coming from Walter Myers.

The researches he had already carried to a successful issue, characterised by rare insight, great accuracy and perseverance, had gained for him a name of which older men might well be proud.