THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION GEORGE K . STRODE, M.D. , DIRECTOR

LABORATORI:!.S OF TilE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION AT THE ROCX:EFELLER INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH YOU: AVt:NUE AND 66th STREET, NEW YORIC 21 October 29, 1945

Dear Colonel Sabin:

A few days ago I received from Dr. A. J. Walker,

Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, a specimen

of serum from a case diagnosed as dengue. Is you neutralization

test sufficiently developed so that you could test this speci•

men? If so, and if you are willing to study this serum, I would

be very glad to send it on to you.

If you are interested I am sure Dr. Walker would be

very glad to furnish you with all the details of the case.

Sincerely yours,

Max Theiler

Lt. Colonel Albert Sabin The Children's Hospital Research Foundation Elland and Bethesda Aves. Cincinnati 29, Ohio

MTfEEK ARMY SERVICE FO~ES Eighth Service Comand La Garde General Hoapital New Orlean• 12, ~aiana

5 November 1945

A. J. Walker, )(. D. '1'ulane )(edical School 1430 Tulane Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana

Dear Doctor Walker a

I am Enclosing the abstract ot the clinical history on the patiet With Dengue.

I will socm be back in Jackson, Mississippi. I have en­ joyed IV' work at La Garde and my association with you.

Thanking you tor all past favors, and expecting to see you later, I am,

Sincerely,

CHARLES E. WARD Major, Meet Corps

CEll's LaG ARMY SERVICE F(R}ES EighthServiceCaumand La Garde General Hospital New Orleans 12, Imisiana

ABS'l'RACT OF CLINICAL HrSTORY

!DmTIFIING INFOHJIATIQla

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PRES!XT ILIIESSa

This patient was admitted to La Garde General Hospital em 28 Septe!lber 1945 1 as a casual from leave. Her complaints were malaise, muscle pains, fever to 103, md post orbital headache of three days • duraticm. No positiw tiD:iings were recorded except tor congestion ot the bulbar C

Ql 1 October 1945 a macular rash was found on the lower ex­ tremi.ties. On 2 October the rash was preseot

The WBC en 29 September was 4, 700 with 75% neutrophile. Ql 1 October it was 5, 900 with 56% neutrophile. The sed rate was 50 lllll in cme hour. All agglutiaaticms tor typhoid, tularemia, undulant tewr, and typhus were negative.

'1he patient's tanperature fluctuated f'rcm 1020 to 104° daiq for six days attar which it rapidq subsided and caaplete re­ cowr;r ensued.

Ut~7. WMZ CHARI&S E. WARD Major, )(ed Corps