Methods used in controlling the 1905 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans 1921

Austin, Hiram W.

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United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

White, Joseph Hill, 1859-1953

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Joseph Hill White, 1859-1953, a surgeon for the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service in New Orleans, led federal efforts to eradicate the aedes aegypti mosquito and quell a local epidemic of yellow fever in 1905. After employing inconsistent methods, the Orleans Parish Medical Society ceded authority to White and the Public Health Service in the campaign. Using recently acquired knowledge of yellow fever's cause, White's measures greatly lessened a potentially disastrous epidemic, the ...