Word: noguchi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Noguchi discovered that American yellow fever was caused by a tiny organism which he named Leptospira icteroides; was carried by a common lady mosquito, Stegomyia calopus; that guinea pigs could be infected with the organism; that the mosquito would carry the infection from one animal to another ; that a horse serum could be prepared that would cure the disease if administered shortly after the infection. These facts known, the disease was conquered. The same process must be applied to West Africa. For over two years a Com mission of the Rockefeller Foundation has been at work on the problem...
Bacteriologist Noguchi by his experiment has found the invading West African organism to be a more vicious member of the American Leptospira family, is now working on a vaccine...
Trachoma is a very contagious eye disease. The inner sides of the lids become sore and granulated; blindness often results. Up to last week the cause had been uncertain. Then Hideyo Noguchi, Japanese, famed biologist of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, revealed how he had caused the disease in his laboratory by using an evasive microorganism he had trapped in the blood of trachoma victims. The A. M. A. gave him a silver medal...
Yellow Fever. Dr. Noguchi was sent to Brazil and there conducted a fight against yellow fever (he discovered its organism). Similar work was done in Peru, Ecuador, Central America and Mexico, President Vincent said, with the result that in 1923 no cases of the disease were reported in Mexico, Central America, Ecuador or Peru; an outbreak in Colombia was put under observation; control measures were under way in Northern Brazil and workers were in training to resume study of the disease along the coast of West Africa...