Exhibit 050 · Library history
The Yellow Fever Laboratory: Rockefeller Foundation, 1928–1937
By late 1936, they had produced an attenuated yellow fever virus, which they called 17D.
The National Library of Medicine's history of the Rockefeller Foundation yellow fever laboratory states that by late 1936 the laboratory team had produced an attenuated yellow fever virus, which it called 17D, and that the first field trials in Brazil started early in 1937.
- Source
- U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Date
- n.d.
- Quoted from
- Page text, paragraph beginning 'From 1934 to 1936, the team cultured several strains'
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://mhm.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/lw/feature/yellowfeverlab
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Theiler and H. H. Smith, 'The use of yellow fever virus modified by in vitro cultivation for human immunization', Journal of Experimental Medicine 65(6): 787–800 (1937), https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.65.6.787.