by Reina Yamane
Hideyo Noguchi is well known as an important bacteriologist. He saved a lot of people and countries from germs. In 1911, he is the first person in the world to find a germ in the brain with progressive supranuclear palsy.
This germ was revealed as syphilis by Hideyo Noguchi. Thanks to this discovery, doctors became able to treat the sick.
In 1918, he found a germ of Weil’s Disease only nine days since he arrived at Ecuador. Then he developed a new vaccine to cure the disease, and this pandemic was stamped out by this vaccine in Ecuador.
In 1925, he also found that two illnesses were in fact the same disease in Peru and Columbia. This theory was scientifically proven by him. As a result, his services were appreciated by Harvard University.
Even now, his theory is still used in the health care entities. As a result, his face is reprinted on a Japanese bill to praise his achievement.
