Vaccination

Abstract

Interviews with DHHS federal staff that had significant roles in managing and directing the federal response to the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, conducted on behalf of the National Library of Medicine for the Making History: H1N1 Oral History Project.

Abstract UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. The 209 H1N1 Flu Pandemic Response Documentation Archive was a collaboration between HMD and ASPR. It is a collection of meeting notes and other primary documents in written and multi-media formats that provide a record of the federal government's response efforts during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. This collaborative project was conceived of by Dr. Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR). HMD historian Sheena Morrison was embedded into ASPR...

Collection Summary

Contains letters, written in French, on the introduction of vaccination, written from Vienna and Vilna, to Dr. Alexander Marcet, London (1802-1805).

Scope and content Letters of a leading Jennerian Jean De Carro to Louis Valentin. Letters, rather than published works, were the chief means by which Jenner and his associates made his discoveries and views known. These letters seem to show that Valentin played the role of French publicist for de Carro's work, as he did for Jenner's. The first letter describes the Jenner-Woodville-Pearson controversy over vaccination and subsequent letters deal with de Carro's efforts to promote vaccination in Europe and...

Abstract

Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet was the progeny of a Lower Austrian noble family, the term Freiherr corresponding to English baron. He was creator of a classical diagnostic test for tuberculosis in which tuberculin is applied to a superficial abrasion of the skin of the arm.