Bernhard Nocht Institute of Hamburg and ten illustrious Venezuelans who went through it

Abstract

The Institute for Naval and Tropical Diseases (Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases) begins its activities in Hamburg, Germany, on October 1, 1900, as a result of the fifth cholera pandemic (1892) that had affected more than 17,000 people , killing 9,000 of them, which motivated the authorities to its creation