1911 Pandemics & Diseases Events — Verified Historical Highlights

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  • 02 Jul Birth of Dorothy Horstmann, pioneering polio researcher: Dorothy Millicent Horstmann was born on July 2, 1911, in Spokane, Washington. She became a prominent epidemiologist and virologist, known for her research on the spread of poliovirus in the human bloodstream, which was instrumental in the development of the polio vaccine. source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov