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Thomas Francis junior war ein US-amerikanischer Arzt, Virologe und Epidemiologe. Francis isolierte als erster Amerikaner das Grippevirus. Er zeigte 1940, dass es weitere Typen von Influenza gibt und war an der Entwicklung von Grippeimpfungen, aber auch Poliomyelitis-Impfungen beteiligt.
Thomas Francis Jr. (July 15, 1900 – October 1, 1969) was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist who guided the discovery and development of the polio vaccine being worked on by his student Jonas Salk.
Thomas Francis, Jr. (born July 15, 1900, Gas City, Ind., U.S.—died Oct. 1, 1969, Ann Arbor, Mich.) was an American microbiologist and epidemiologist who isolated the viruses responsible for influenza A (1934) and influenza B (1940) and developed a polyvalent vaccine effective against both strains.
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4. Jan. 2021 · Das Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene veröffentlichte hier im September 2016 einen Artikel, wonach es dem amerikanischen Virologen und Epidemiologen Thomas Francis Junior und Jonas...
It was April 12, 1955, and Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., director of the Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, was announcing to the world that the vaccine, developed by his former student Jonas Salk, was protective of paralytic polio.
13. März 2023 · When Dr Thomas Francis Jr said those famous words in 1955 – “the vaccine is safe, effective and potent” – polio still killed and paralysed millions of people around the world, including in the US. The idea that polio could be eradicated must have seemed a distant dream. But today, we stand on the threshold of realising that ...
12. Apr. 2022 · In the early 1940s, an Army-supported research team at the University of Michigan led by Thomas Francis Jr. and Jonas Salk (of the polio vaccine) developed the first viable flu vaccine. In...
