American Decades

Important Events in Medicine and Health, 1940–1949

A team of researchers at the Rockefeller Institute discovers the Rh factor in blood.
Rebecca Lancefield identifies streptococcus group A as the cause of rheumatic fever.
The Rockefeller Foundation announces it will make a recently developed vaccine available to Britain to fight influenza in the war zone.
On May 22, the Council of Foods of the American Medical Association (AMA) gives its first seal of approval to the Bird's Eye Corporation for its quick-frozen foods.
In August, there are deadly outbreaks of polio in West Virginia and Indiana during the summer.
On October 10, the medical faculty at Stockholm University announces it will not award the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1940 because of the ongoing war.
On October 21, the Clinical College of the American College of Surgeons recommends a detailed plan for having doctors serve in the military without causing...

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