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| | Dr. Hideyo Noguchi in Yucatan |
 | | Hideyo Noguchi was born in the city of Wakamatsu, Japan on November 24, 1876. |
 | | In 1912, he discovered the treponema Palidum of Syphilis in the brain of a dead patient who had died from general paralysis, thereby confirming the etiological theory of that form of brain disease. |
 | | From 1918, Dr. Noguchi dedicated himself to the study of yellow fever and in 1920, the Rockefeller Institute sent Dr. Noguchi to the Laboratories of the Hospital O'Horan, Merida, Yucatan to study this disease. |
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