What is Hideyo Noguchi?
[[File:Dr. Noguchi Hideyo.jpg|thumb|Hideyo Noguchi]] {{nihongo|'''Hideyo Noguchi'''|野口 英世|''Noguchi Hideyo''|24 November 1876 – 21 May 1928}} was a [[Japan]]ese [[microbiologist]]. He studied [[bacteria]]. He was born in [[Inawashiro, Fukushima|Inawashiro]], [[Fukushima Prefecture|Fukushima]]. He worked at the Institute of Infectious Diseases as a doctor. When he was 24, he went to the [[United States]]. In 1928, he moved to [[Ecuador]], where there were many cases of [[yellow fever]]. He went to find the bacteria that caused it. After arriving there, he was able to identify the bacteria as yellow fever, and developed a [[vaccine]]. This quickly reduced the number of people dying of yellow fever in South America. In 1928, while researching yellow fever in [[Accra]], he was infected by yellow fever and died.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wwwcms.pref.fukushima.jp/pcp_portal/PortalServlet;jsessionid=1D0A5648B2A8E55A4853B0C59864E7D7?DISPLAY_ID=DIRECT&NEXT_DISPLAY_ID=U000004&CONTENTS_ID=25554 |title=Great Person of Fukushima |accessdate=2014-01-21 |last= |first= |date= |work= |publisher= }}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Noguchi, Hideyo}} [[Category:1876 births]] [[Category:1928 deaths]] [[Category:Japanese scientists]] [[Category:Microbiologists]] [[Category:Deaths from infectious disease]] [[Category:People from Fukushima Prefecture]] {{Authority control}} {{bio-stub}}