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Herdis von Magnus

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Herdis von Magnus was a renowned polio expert who once worked with Jonas Salk, following which she directed the first Danish polio vaccination programme with her husband Preben von Magnus. She also worked on encephalitis.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ Seytre, Bernard; Shaffer, Mary (2004). The Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis. Rutgers University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9780813536767.
  2. ^ Jacobs, Charlotte DeCroes; Jacobs, Charlotte (2015). Jonas Salk: A Life. Oxford University Press. p. 181. ISBN 9780199334414.
  3. ^ Vargha, Dóra (2018). Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic. Cambridge University Press. p. 141. ISBN 9781108431019.
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