Word: accra
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Died. Dr. William Alexander Young, Director of Medical Research at Accra, Africa, former assistant to the late Dr. Hideyo Noguchi; of yellow fever. Searching for a yellow fever vaccine, Professor Adrian Stokes of London, Dr. Noguchi and Dr. Young have been successive victims of the disease within the last year...
Died. Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, 51, native of Japan, discoverer of the germ and the curative serum for South American yellow fever; of African yellow fever, in Accra, West Africa. He had been working in conjunction with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to find the African yellow fever germ. On the fifth day of his illness he had a monkey injected with a few drops of his own infected blood. The monkey died. Fifty other monkeys were infected and died (TIME, May 21). Thus Dr. Noguchi had discovered the African germ, and was planning to work for a serum when...
...mission of the Rockefeller Foundation has been at work on the problem in the U. S. and Africa. Progress has been held up because none of the experimental animals would contract the African form of yellow fever. In the end it was Dr. Noguchi him self who went to Accra on the West coast of Africa to experiment, was there taken to the hospital with yellow fever. On the fifth day when his high temperature was reluctantly dropping and the second stage of the disease had set in, he had a monkey from India (Macacus rhesus) inoculated with his infected...