Mason V. Hargett papers, 1925-1986 (bulk 1938-1946).

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Mason V. Hargett papers, 1925-1986 (bulk 1938-1946).

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Scope and contents: This collection consists primarily of records concerning Hargett's work with the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation in Brazil (1938-1939) and with the Yellow Fever Unit at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana (1940-1946). The collection includes a significant number of photographs, chiefly from Hargett's time in Brazil, as well as materials relating to the procedure and production of yellow fever vaccine in the Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Series III contains materials relating to Hargett's work at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, including experiments reports, laboratory forms and unit orders, and technical reports, as well as a complete description of the method of production of yellow fever vaccine at Rocky Mountain Laboratory, including diagrams of equipment and photographs, compiled by H.W. Burruss. The series also includes tissue section slides of human cases of yellow fever and of diseases commonly confused with yellow fever.

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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...

Burruss, Harry W.

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Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Division

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Hargett, Mason V.

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Biographical sketch: Mason V. Hargett contributed greatly to the field of tropical medicine with his work on the yellow fever vaccine, first with the Rockefeller Foundation in Brazil and then at the PHS Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana. Hargett's research facilitated the introduction of a yellow fever vaccine produced without human serum, thereby reducing the possibility of contamination that had existed before. Hargett designed, as well as headed, the Yellow Fever Unit at the Rocky Mountain...

Rocky Mountain Laboratory

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