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It was taking soldiers anywhere from a few weeks to four months after inoculation before they came down with jaundice. (Incubation period for yellow fever: three or four days.) Therefore, even after the suspect vaccine was discarded, the number of cases was expected to increase for a while, as the...
The experts finally decided that the disorder might be connected with the Army's inoculation against yellow fever. (To those who jumped to the conclusion that the disease was yellow fever itself, the doctors pointed out that yellow fever is violent, with a 10% to 85% mortality, while the...
How Come? The doctors went to work meanwhile to figure out what was the matter with the vaccine. So far they have little to report. The vaccine, provided by the Rockefeller Foundation since 1936, consists of yellow-fever virus rendered harmless in the laboratory. The ½cc ampules must be...
The situation was further clouded by the fact that a few of the Army's civilian office workers also got jaundice. And the careful Navy, which was inoculating with another batch of Rockefeller vaccine, at first proudly let it be known that there were no Navy cases, later admitted...
There is no vaccine against sleeping sickness, but the powerful arsenic drug tryparsamide, which kills syphilis spirochetes, also kills the trypanosomes of sleeping sickness. Developed in the Rockefeller Institute in 1919, and introduced to Africa by Dr. Louise Pearce in the '20s, tryparsamide clears up sleeping sickness in three...