CASE OF YELLOW FEVER

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 92, 12 January 1929, Page 24

CASE OF YELLOW FEVER

Professor Kuczynski, who has spent ears in attempting to discover the ause of yellow fever, now claims that e has succeeded in isolating the excitnt to this disease (states a corresponent in the “Morning Post”).

His experiments, which were as danSrous as those which cost Noguchi his fe this year on the Gold Coast, counted in “physiologically” breeding the acillus, which, when applied to animal hd human life, produced the same ef;cts as yellow fever. This, he exlained at a meeting of the Association )T Internal Medicine, he succeeded in reducing after studying the disease 3th in Africa and at home in his iboratory. The Professor then worked on the tsis of Dr. Stokes’s discovery in the ockefeller Institute, that yellow fever infectious among Rhesus monkeys, hile not being transmitted by the •itial experimental animals like rabbits id guinea-pigs. He therefore applied is bacillus to such monkeys and there

developed the same symptoms as those from which persons suffer who are infected with yellow fever.

The Professor observed that the disease could be transmitted from one animal to another by the tropical mosquito in the same manner as yellow fever is transmitted. He did not conclude that his bacillus was the excitant, so greatly sought, merely from his experiments on monkeys, for both he and his assistant caught the disease, Infected by the monkeys, and produced by the bilcillus which he had bred. A specialist who attended both patients gave a report at the meeting on the course of their Illness, which was highly dangerous and which was identical, he said, with that of yellow fever. Professor Kuczynski went on to say that, with the help of the excitant bred by him, he had obtained a serum wtih which he could inoculate the monkeys. Monkeys suffering from yellow fever which were inoculated with the serum recovered from the disease, while the others died,