Abstract
THE annual report for 1937 of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, recently published, gives an account of the projects carried out under the auspices of the Health Division by members of its staff. Virus agents of yellow fever, influenza and other diseases, and certain proteins, including visual purple, have been studied by the use of an analytical ultracentrifuge. By means of a cultured yellow fever virus, a vaccine has been produced with which some 60,000 persons have been inoculated, mostly in Brazil, the results of which show that a practicable safe method of large-scale immunization against yellow fever is now available. Studies on the epidemiology of the jungle form of yellow fever have also been pursued. Tuberculosis, particularly in Jamaica, hookworm disease in Egypt and the United States, and malaria and its mosquito vectors in various countries, are other subjects that have been investigated. In addition to research work, the Foundation renders financial aid to State and local health services and to health education in all parts of the world. The report, which is very readable, includes several plates illustrating the work carried out.
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Health-Activities of the Rockefeller Foundation. Nature 144, 474 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144474a0
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