RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION 35
produced in monkeys. By using the general technique
employed in producing a high potency
serum in rabbits, it was possible to obtain from
monkeys a serum found to have a protective
power over twenty times as great as that of the
human immune serum previously used for vaccination
purposes. Four cubic centimeters of this
serum were considered sufficient to allow an
ample margin of safety in the vaccination of an
adult of average weight. This new type serum is
at present being used on a fairly large scale in
Brazil for vaccination underfieldconditions. The
results in the laboratory using tissue culture virus
together with
this serum were highly satisfactory,
in that good immunity, with little adverse
reaction, was
obtained. Reports from
Brazil on its use under field conditions have been
similarly gratifying.
Malaria
The 1935 budget of the International Health
Division of The
Rockefeller Foundation contained
items providing for field research on malaria
in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Albania, Bulgaria,
Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and India; laboratory
studies of this disease at the University
of Chicago under Dr. W. H. Taliaferro; and
demonstrations
in the control of malaria in
Colombia, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Albania.
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