Rocky Mountain Laboratories
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Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) is part of the
In February 2020, electron microscope images of SARS-CoV-2 were collected at RML.[6]
History
Rocky Mountain Laboratories began as the Montana Board of Entomology Laboratory. It was opened in 1928 by the Montana State Board of Entomology to study
During World War II, the United States Public Health Service used the laboratory to manufacture Yellow fever vaccine. When the human serum–base vaccine caused an outbreak of Hepatitis B that infected more than 350,000 U.S. soldiers, two researchers at the laboratory, Dr. Mason Hargett and Harry Burruss, developed an aqueous-base vaccine that combined distilled water with virus grown in chicken eggs. By the end of the war, the laboratory distributed more than 1 million doses of the improved yellow fever vaccine.[7]
In the post-war decades, the laboratory broadened its scope to study chlamydia trachomatis and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies including scrapie, mad cow disease, and chronic wasting disease. In 1982, Dr. Willy Burgdorfer discovered Borrelia burgdorferi, the tick-borne bacterium that causes Lyme disease.[7]
References
- ^ a b "Rocky Mountain Laboratories Overview, NIAID, NIH". niaid.nih.gov. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
- ^ "Heinz Feldmann, M.D., Ph.D., Laboratory of Virology". niaid.nih.gov. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
- ^ "Laboratory of Bacteriology". niaid.nih.gov. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
- ^ "Bruce W. Chesebro, M.D., Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH". niaid.nih.gov. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
- ^ "Rocky Mountain Laboratories". niaid.nih.gov. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
- ^ Missoulian. "Hamilton lab releases new images of coronavirus". missoulian.com. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
- ^ a b c Hettrick, Gary R. (Winter 2012). "Vaccine Production in the Bitterroot Valley during World War II: How Rocky Mountain Laboratory Protected American Forces from Yellow Fever". Montana The Magazine of Western History. 62 (4): 47–59.
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