Naval Medical Research Unit Five

Naval Medical Research Unit Five (NAMRU-5) was a research laboratory of the US Navy which was founded as a detachment of Naval Medical Research Unit 3 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia with a collecting station in Gambella in 1965. In 1974 NAMRU-5 was established as its own command and was housed in the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute. NAMRU-5 was disestablished in 1977 following the communist takeover of the government of Ethiopia. Fields of study included:

• Leptospirosis
• Congenital syphilis
• Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
• Leishmaniasis
• Malaria

Commanding Officers

• Captain Craig K Wallace 1974-6

References

Navy Research timeline

Photo of former site of NAMRU-5

Wood OL et al. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Thogoto, Dugbe, and Jos Viruses Isolated from Ixodid Ticks in Ethiopia

Leptosporosis Survey of Rodents and domestic Animals in Ethiopia

Friedmann PS Cell-mediated immunological reactivity in neonates and infants with congenital syphilis.

Palmer TT Chloroquine Sensitivity of Plasmodium Falciparum in Ethiopia: II. Results of an In Vitro Test

[www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/Sandfly/5108.pdf Leishmaniasis In The Sudan Republic 30. Final Epidemiologic Report]

External links

• Navy Medical Research timeline