Naval Medical Research Unit Four (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Naval Medical Research Unit Four (NAMRU-4) was a research laboratory of the US Navy which was founded in 1948 at the Great Lakes Naval Base on the grounds of the Naval Hospital to study acute respiratory diseases in military personnel with a focus on their prevention. The location at Great Lakes made it ideal as this was a large recruit training command with members arriving from all over the United States and being housed in military barracks and therefore would be expected to experience outbreaks of respiratory illness periodically. Diseases studied included: