From Our Inbox: A Microbe Hunter in Oregon Fights the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

From Our Inbox: A Microbe Hunter in Oregon Fights the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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Harriet Jane Lawrence was one of the first female pathologists in the U.S. In the early 1900s she worked in Portland, Oregon, where she hunted microbes and developed vaccines and serum therapies with the help of 200 guinea pigs that she kept in her garage. Her work on a vaccine during the 1918 influenza pandemic earned her presidential recognition and has had a lasting impact on medicine.

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