1. Sahachiro Hata was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who researched the bubonic plague under Kitasato Shibasaburo and assisted in developing the antisyphilitic drug arsphenamine in 1909 in the laboratory of Paul Ehrlich.
10 Facts About Sahachiro Hata
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Sahachiro Hata was born in Tsumo Village, Shimane prefecture as the eighth son of the Yamane family.
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Sahachiro Hata completed his medical education in Okayama at the Third Higher School of Medicine.
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Sahachiro Hata researched bubonic plague with Japanese bacteriologist and physician, Kitasato Shibasaburo, who co-discovered the infectious agent, a bacterium now called Yersinia pestis.
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Sahachiro Hata worked as an assistant for Kitasato and conducted research into the prevention of plague and other epidemic diseases.
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Sahachiro Hata helped formulate the "Communicable Disease Prevention Law," which was enacted in 1897 as the first legal framework for disease control in Japan.
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When Sahachiro Hata injected compound 606, arsphenamine, into rabbits infected with syphilis, he found it to be effective against syphilis in vivo.
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At the Congress for Internal Medicine at Wiesbaden in April 1910, Ehrlich and Sahachiro Hata shared their successful clinical results, which showed that arsphenamine treated syphilis in humans.
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Sahachiro Hata returned to Japan and became the leading bacteriologist of his generation and continued his work testing arsphenamine against syphilis.
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Sahachiro Hata became a director at the Kitasato Institute, and he lectured at Keio University.