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Black History Month: Loney Clinton Gordon Contributes to the Development of the Vaccine Against Whooping Cough

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on February 18, 2020March 15, 2020

Loney Clinton Gordon has an important role to play in the development of the vaccine against pertussis (whooping cough). She formed part of a three-woman team who worked on the vaccine.

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Black History Month: Onesimus Spreads Wisdom That Saves Lives of Bostonians During a Smallpox Epidemic

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on February 7, 2020March 15, 2020

An African slave by the name of Onesimus might have been the key person in beginning the fight against smallpox in the American Colonies in the early 1700s.

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Women Who Pioneered the Whooping Cough Vaccine Are Immortalized in Sculpture

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on October 9, 2019March 15, 2020

Three women who pioneered the vaccine against whooping cough have been immortalized in sculpture.

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Black History Month: Mae C. Jemison, MD, Reaches for the Stars

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on March 1, 2019December 28, 2019

Mae C. Jemison, MD, was the first Black woman to go into space, but that…

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Black History Month: Loney Clinton Gordon Contributes to the Development of the Vaccine Against Whooping Cough

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on February 10, 2019December 7, 2019

Loney Clinton Gordon was born in Arkansas in 1915. After moving to Michigan as a…

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