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Duffy's roommate, Elizabeth Wardenburg '86, agrees with Duffy that her thesis--on the treatment of Polio 1935-1950--offers her "a sense of real satisfaction and accomplishment...
...natural science and teacher to generations of experts in infectious disease at Harvard University (1929-77), whose techniques for growing viruses outside the human body and attenuating them so that safe, effective vaccines could be created led to the near eradication of many childhood diseases, including measles and polio, in developed countries; in Waterford, Conn...
During the American Civil War, more soldiers died of typhoid than died in battle. The epidemic of Spanish influenza in 1918-19 killed more than 500,000 Americans. Before the Salk vaccine, nearly 600,000 Americans were infected by poliomyelitis, and 10% of them died. The polio epidemic caused memorable summers of trauma, during which swimming pools and shopping centers across the U.S. were closed...
...advance was critical for those seeking to develop vaccines, and Enders led a Harvard research team in successfully growing viruses for polio, measles, rubella and mumps in the tissue cultures, which thrived in the test tube environments...
...John F. Enders, who during nearly 50 years as a Harvard scientist won wide acclaim and a Nobel prize for helping to develop vaccines against polio, measles and mumps, died Sunday night at his summer home in Waterford, Conn. He was 88 years...