Daily Archives: 8. 4. 1894

1894 – First Health Diagnostic Bacteriological Laboratory in the United States.

The Louisiana State  Board of Health established the first State Board of Health Diagnostic Bacteriological Laboratory in the United States. Louisiana became the first state to create a bacteriological laboratory on April 15, 1894 under the direction of Dr. Paul E. Archinard. The bacteriological laboratory was located in the City Hall Annex building which then stood at…

1894 – Discovered that rat plague was the same as human plague

In 1894, Alexander Yersin and another scientist separately identified Y. pestis during an epidemic in Hong Kong. Years later the bacterium was given his name. Yersin also connected his discovery to the pestilence that swept Europe during the Black Death, an association that has stuck. One problem, however, is that compared to the wildfire-like spread of the Black…