Life-saving vaccine scientist's 100th birthday celebrated

[The Patriot]

Life-saving vaccine scientist's 100th birthday celebrated

09-06-2019 12:59 PM

Maurice Hilleman, born 100 years ago, would grow up to develop vaccines against measles, mumps, chickenpox, pneumonia, influenza, meningitis and hepatitis and other diseases. Hilleman is credited with saving tens of millions of lives worldwide — more than any other scientist of the 20th century, the New York Times reported in 2005 when he died at age 85.


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