J. Austin Kerr Dr. Kerr Workers in tropical medicine Collection Droit et consommation Kerr, J. Austin, 1900- Malaria -- history Tropical Medicine Yellow Fever -- history Part of the Workers in Tropical Medicine series produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this interview with Dr. J. Austin Kerr examines his forty years of work for the Rockefeller Foundation. He was initially stationed in Alabama, but while working in Tennessee, he noted that the prevalence of hookworm in school children related to the presence of sand- or clay-based soil, and began to investigate these associations. In the 1920s, Kerr was asked by Rockefeller to work in Brazil, combating yellow fever in urban areas. He monitored the presence of Aedes eqyptiae mosquitoes, especially near water supplies. In the interview, he is also asked about a viscertome, a device which pierces the abdominal wall to obtain a liver sample. After working for many years in Brazil, helping to eradicate Anopheles, he was posted to Egypt and continued mosquito eradication work there. Credits: Interviewed by Wilbur G. Downs and Thomas H.G. Aitken. [Atlanta, Ga.] : CDC, 1981 Downs, Wilbur G., 1913-1991. Aitken, Thomas H. G. Centers for Disease Control (U.S.) American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Biography Moving image 030 min. Color Film technique unknown nlm:nlmuid-8700057A-vid 8700057A http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8700057A OCLC: 31667352 English The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/