Giuseppe Sanarelli (1865 -1940) was an Italian bacteriologist who incorrectly identified the cause of yellow fever as a bacterium; however, it was later found by Walter Reed that the bacterium Bacillus icterioides was a secondary infection. In 1897 he triggered the first major public debate on medical ethics when he injected yellow fever bacteria into five patients without consent, three of whom died.

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