"The preparation of the yellow fever vaccine"
At the Rockefeller Foundation, the rat colony for experiments with viruses and antibodies in humans. In Ilha dos Macacos, next to the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, in Rio de Janeiro, the creation of Rhesus monkey by the Rockefeller Foundation - a primate species that allows the monitoring of experimental yellow fever.
Edgard Roquette-Pinto
Narrator
At the Rockefeller Foundation, the rat colony for experiments with viruses and antibodies in humans. In Ilha dos Macacos, next to the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, in Rio de Janeiro, the creation of Rhesus monkey by the Rockefeller Foundation - a primate species that allows the monitoring of experimental yellow fever.
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