An American hero....Thank you and RIP, Maurice Hilleman

[Bluebear]

Maurice Hilleman, 85, developed many vaccines

The New York Times
April 12, 2005

Maurice R. Hilleman, a microbiologist who developed vaccines for mumps, measles, chickenpox, pneumonia, meningitis and other diseases, saving tens of millions of lives, died Monday at a hospital in Philadelphia. He was 85.

The cause was cancer, said a son-in-law, Greg Slamowitz.

Raised on a farm in Montana, Hilleman credited much of his success to his boyhood work with chickens, whose eggs form the foundation of so many vaccines.

Hilleman is credited with developing more human and animal vaccines than any other scientist, helping to extend human life expectancy and improving the economies of many countries.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/236140-5393-010.html
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Maurice Hilleman, ....director of the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research in Pennsylvania, took the mumps virus from his oldest daughter, Jeryl Lynn, and developed a vaccine in time to prevent his next daughter from contracting the once-common childhood infection.

That was in 1963, and Hilleman, a Miles City native, had already made major breakthroughs on influenza vaccines and helped avert what could have been an influenza pandemic in 1957....He detected the 1957 influenza in Hong Kong in time for the institute to make 40 million doses of vaccine and avert a pandemic.

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[Spinzonner]

1. And today is the 50-year anniversay of the day that the Salk Polio Vaccine

was announced to be safe and effective.

America doesn't really know who its real heros are - just vainglorious athletes and entertainers and self-serving political and military leaders.

[lildreamer316]

2. Ahh yes, but

...he isn't the POPE, so where is the media coverage? Oh, I forgot, they're all still lauding that great humanitarian in Rome..you know; the one who helped spread AIDS because he said one couldn't wear a condom......