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Overview
Hideyo Noguchi is a bacteriology specialist at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Based in New York.
Biography
Hideyo Noguchi was a Japanese bacteriologist who contributed to the understanding of syphilis, yellow fever, and other infectious diseases. He died of yellow fever while researching it in Ghana.
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The life and contributions of Hideyo Noguchi
1911
Cultured Treponema pallidum
Demonstrated the syphilis spirochete in the brain of patients with general paresis
1928
Died researching yellow fever
Contracted and died of yellow fever while studying the disease in Accra, Ghana