My Last Will and Testament on Rapid Elimination and Ultimate Global Eradication of Poliomyelitis and Measles

摘要: It is a special pleasure for me to participate in today9s symposium, honor of my cousin Saul Krugman9s 80th birthday and celebrate his important contributions our knowledge infectious diseases. so happens that I have also spent life the pursuit diseases, yet, despite close family relationship—he son mother9s brother—our paths rarely crossed until he was 35 years old. then Saul, without any training bacteriology, virology, immunology, or pathology, decided spend academic pediatrics Was there link between Saul9s career diseases own, which began 64 ago? In October 1946, after 5 as flight surgeon 6 months9 residency at Willard Parker Hospital, center all horrible communicable children New York City, applied pediatrics. But were no vacancies this 35-year-old World War II veteran. came Cincinnati seek advice. 1940, pediatric Hopkins, Dr Robert Ward laboratory work on polio other viruses. 1943, when left join Army, Robbie not accepted by Army because an old tuberculous lesion acquired wards Hopkins Harriet Lane joined John R. Paul Yale hepatitis.