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Hans Zinsser

American bacteriologist and epidemiologist
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Born:
Nov. 17, 1878, New York, N.Y., U.S.
Died:
1940 (aged 61)
Subjects Of Study:
typhus
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Hans Zinsser (born Nov. 17, 1878, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died 1940) was an American bacteriologist and epidemiologist. He taught principally at the Columbia (1913–23) and Harvard (1923–40) medical schools. He isolated the bacterium that causes the European type of typhus, developed the first anti-typhus vaccine, and, with colleagues, found a way to mass-produce the vaccine. He recognized that cases of mild typhus-like symptoms in lice-free persons are recurrences after a latent period (Brill-Zinsser disease). His best-known book, Rats, Lice and History (1935), recounts the effects of typhus on humankind (he believed disease had destroyed more civilizations than war) and efforts ...(100 of 94 words)

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