Warren B. Griffin slide collection, 1959-1964. [graphic].
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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...
Griffin, Warren
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Warren Griffin arrived in Alaska in 1959 to serve as Director of the Alaska Sanitation Aide Program. In 1963 he became the Health Mobilization Consultant for Alaska with the U.S. Public Health Service in Anchorage. He later served as Chief of the unit until 1971. His job required extensive travel throughout small villages in Alaska and according to Griffin, his most memorable experiences surrounded his close relationship with the natives of the villages as well as his duties in Anchorage during ...
