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Only 55 years ago great, meticulous Louis Pasteur (1822-95) began to realize that for every infectious disease there is a specific microorganism. That year chicken cholera was Pasteur's obsession. Dishes of the virus lay all around his Pans laboratory. Then, in the midst of his research he dashed away on a vacation. The virus died, but Pasteur did not know that...
Last week a Paris dispatch reported another and possibly more effective attack on yellow fever. Immunologist Jean Laigret of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis announced that he had successfully vaccinated 3,000 individuals against yellow fever at Dakar, French West Africa, which is achieving business importance as a French hop-off for South Atlantic aviation. If wholesale vaccination is possible, whole populations can be protected against yellow fever as simply and thoroughly as they now are protected against smallpox. And communities will not be encumbered by the expensive necessity of eradicating yellow fever mosquitoes...
...professors in the Harvard Medical school, Dr. Andrew W. Sellards and Dr. Hans Theiler are cited in a report made to the French Academy of Sciences for having contributed important aid to Dr. Jean L'Aigret of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis, in perfecting a wholly successful vaccine for yellow fever...
...Theiler used mice and monkeys as the subjects for the initial experiments, and when Pasteur authorities refused permission to inoculate persons as a final test, the doctors transferred their activities to Tunis, where the experiments were continued...
After convincing the director of the Pastcur Institute in Tunis of the efficacy of the vaccine,and gaining the permission of the governor of West Africa, 3,000 whites were successfully inoculated against the dread yellow fever. The Pasteur Institute of Paris is being urged to begin production of the new vaccine...