biography
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Macnamara, Dame (Annie) Jean
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| female
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| lived:
| (1899–1968)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Beechworth, Victoria, NE Australia. She studied at Melbourne University, worked in local hospitals, and during the poliomyelitis epidemic of 1925 tested the use of immune serum. Later, with Sir Macfarlane Burnet, she found that there was more than one strain of the polio virus, a discovery which led to the development of the Salk vaccine. She was also involved in the controversial introduction of myxomatosis as a means of controlling the rabbit population of Australia in 1951. |
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