NAMRU
NAMRU is the Naval acronym of U.S. Medical Research .
This medical unit of the Research laboratory of the marine of the United States is divided into several research centres specialized in the study and the follow-up of the infectious illness likely to be of a threat or interest for the US Navy or the U.S. Defense Department.
NAMRU 2, had an antenna since 1968 with Jakarta in Indonesia. This unit was initially created on the island of Guam at the time of the Second world war with the assistance of the Fondation Rockefeller. It was then moved in 1955 with Tapei (Taiwan) then with Manila (Filipino) before the command is transported from there to Jakarta in 1990 and with the ASEAN as regards epidemiologic day before. This unit also works with the Laos, Vietnam, and Kampuchea, with the follow-up of the military personnel, and in bond with the authorities. NAMRU 2 also has a laboratory N with Jayapur (Irian Jaya). NAMRU 2 was recently indicated by WHO like one of its reference laboratories.
NAMRU 3 is based with the Cairo (Egypt). This unit originates in a Commission (U.S. Typhus Commission) created by the presidency of the USA in 1942 to know and fight typhus within the troops of North Africa. A research laboratory was assembled, in bond with the hospital of Abbasia specialized in the infectious illness in Cairo. This laboratory played a big role, including for Egypt which invited the Navy of the USA to continue her collaboration after the war, on the tropical diseases and subtropical endemic, with the Egyptian scientists. NAMRU-3 was officialized on the site of the old Commission of the Typhus, by the secretary with the marine of the USA in 1946. NAMRU-3 then worked on the rickettsial diseases and of the infectious illness such as the Choléra, the Variole, the Méningite S… in bond with the Egyptian ministry for health (MoH). In 1967 the diplomatic relations were cut between the 2 countries, but the personnel égyption maintained the laboratory. After several months, the commander of the NAMRU 3 could Co-direct for 7 years the laboratory with his Egyptian colleague.
After end of the year 60, detached auxiliary laboratories worked in Sudan and in Ethiopia to fight against the Leishmaniose and the Malaria. The detached auxiliary laboratory with Addis-Abeba (Ethiopia) was transformed into independent unit to become NAMRU-5 of 1974 to 1977, before being evacuated and closed when the government became communist.
These laboratories contribute to the study of the Avian flu and the epidemiologic day before.
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