Medicine: Agramonte v. Noguchi

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Dr. Agramonte's letter concluded: "In July, 1927, in West Africa, infection of a rhesus monkey was obtained with the blood of a native suffering from yellow fever, and soon after, other monkeys were infected with blood and by the bites of infected mosquitoes, from monkey to monkey and from man to monkey. Inasmuch as Dr. Noguchi did not go to West Africa until later (he was in New York during August), he could not have furnished the blood for the monkey inoculation, as reported; in fact, he had nothing to do with them, and you may add to this that his leptospira has never been found in West Africa by the Rockefeller investigators. It is also reported that Dr. Noguchi suffered an attack of yellow fever in December, 1927, but if such had been the case, he could not have suffered another, to cause his death, in May, 1928. More likely his attack of December was not yellow fever. It is not known whether he used his own-so-called vaccine upon himself; if he did, small wonder that he was not protected."