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1893 – First local Health Diagnostic Bacteriological Laboratory in the US

1899 - 1800, United States of AmericaBy Editor8. 4. 1893

In 1893, the Board of Health accepted two proposals submitted by dr. Herman Biggs which were to make history as important stages in the modernization of public health practices. The first was that the Health Department employ routine bacterial examinations for the diagnosis of diphtheria (and other infectious diseases); the second, that Dr. William H.…

1893 – Tick to cattle transmission of Texas Tick fever described

1899 - 1800, United States of AmericaBy Editor8. 4. 1893

  A few years after beginning his work at BAI, Theobald Smith turned his attention to Texas cattle fever, a devastating disease that destroyed 90% of herds in some affected areas. It occurred in northern cattle that came in contact with cattle from Texas during cattle drives to stockyards in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois. It…

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