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A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE FOR 1942

CARL H. GREENE, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1943;71(4):563-578.

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JAUNDICE FOLLOWING VACCINATION FOR YELLOW FEVER

The laboratories of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation have been active since 1936 in the development and production of a vaccine which by a single injection provides active immunity of long duration against yellow fever.¹ As a result of the war emergency the demand for this vaccine has been so great as to require its production on an unprecedented scale.

The distribution of yellow fever vaccine manufactured by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York in 1941² was as follows:

Great interest was aroused when it was reported by Army authorities in July that an epidemic of jaundice had developed among troops in the United States and abroad. This epidemic started in March and increased until a total of 28,585 cases was reported in July, when it was brought under control.³

Circular letter no. 95 from the Surgeon General's Office⁴ reported that in this epidemic the clinical course of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Clinic for the Study of Diseases of the Liver and Biliary Tract of the Departments of Medicine and Surgery, New York Post-Gaduate Medical School and Hospital, Columbia Univestity.

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