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Naval Medical Research Unit Five

{{Short description|Former US Navy research unit}}

{{No footnotes|date=June 2019}}

Naval Medical Research Unit Five (NAMRU-5) was a research laboratory of the US Navy which was founded as a field facility of Naval Medical Research Unit 3 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia with a collecting station in Gambella on December 30, 1965 under an agreement between the US and Ethiopian governments. In 1974 NAMRU-5 was established as its own command and was housed in the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (former Imperial Central Laboratory Research Institute). The mission of NAMRU-5 was to conduct research and development on infectious diseases of military importance in sub-Sahara Africa. Gambella became the focus of a major malaria control effort and studies on malaria immunology. Applied research focused on the general areas of insect repellents, insecticide resistance, insect attractants and louse control.

Members of the NAMRU-5 staff were also among the last Americans to ever see smallpox before its eradication. NAMRU-5 built collaborative research efforts with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; with local medical facilities, including the Haile Selassie University Medical School and various hospitals in Addis Ababa; and with the London School of Tropical Medicine, the University of Washington, Case Western Reserve University Department of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. NAMRU-5 was disestablished in April 1977 following the communist takeover of the government of Ethiopia which ordered all members out of the country in 4 days.

Fields of study included:

Commanding officers

  • Captain Craig K. Wallace (1974-1976)

References

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20180315122824/http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmrc/sitepages/NewsStory.aspx?StoryID=244 R&D Chronicles: Remembering NAMRU-5, the Navy's Medical Laboratory in Ethiopia, 1965-1977]
  • [http://issuu.com/navymedicine/docs/nmrd_news_vol_iv_issue_6/13?zoomed=&zoomPercent=&zoomX=&zoomY=¬eText=¬eX=¬eY=&viewMode=magazine Navy Medical Research & Development News June 2012]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20101226204455/http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmrc/documents/Timeline.pdf Navy Research timeline]
  • [https://www.flickr.com/photos/travlr/3958751031/ Photo of former site of NAMRU-5]
  • [http://www.ajtmh.org/content/27/3/600.citation Wood OL et al. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Thogoto, Dugbe, and Jos Viruses Isolated from Ixodid Ticks in Ethiopia]
  • [https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA033991.pdf Leptosporosis Survey of Rodents and domestic Animals in Ethiopia]
  • [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Friedmann%20p%201977%20syphilis Friedmann PS Cell-mediated immunological reactivity in neonates and infants with congenital syphilis.]
  • [http://www.ajtmh.org/content/25/1/10.citation Palmer TT Chloroquine Sensitivity of Plasmodium Falciparum in Ethiopia: II. Results of an In Vitro Test]
  • [http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/Sandfly/5108.pdf Leishmaniasis In The Sudan Republic 30. Final Epidemiologic Report]

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20101226204455/http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmrc/documents/Timeline.pdf Navy Medical Research timeline]

{{coord missing|Ethiopia}}

Category:Military medical research of the United States Navy

Category:Ethiopia–United States relations