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In the course of 1957 Hilleman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Hilleman joined Merck as head of its new Virus and Cell Biology Research department, in West Point, Pennsylvania. What followed was prodigious. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150172 It was at Merck that Hilleman developed most of the forty experimental and licensed animal and human vaccines with which he is credited. On the fourteenth vaccine routinely recommended in current vaccine schedules, he developed eight: those for measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia, and Haemophilus influenzae bacteria. In 1963, his daughter Jeryl Lunn came down with the mumps. Hilleman cultivated viral material from her and used it as the basis of mumps vaccine. The Jeryl Lynn strain of the mumps vaccine is still used today. Hilleman and his team invented a vaccine for hepatitis B by treating blood serum with pepsin, urea, and formaldehyde. This was licensed in 1981 (though superseded in the United States in 1986 by a vaccine that was produced in yeast) and was still the preferred option in 150 countries as recently as 2003 ~ Page 225

Cholera comes to New York while Science sleeps. “Is This a time for Sleep?” By Charles Kendrick, 1883

. . . the president of Seismological Society of Japan told the ‘Asahi Shimbun: “There are many excuses we can make, but it amounted to a defeat for us. The only thing we can say is that it was beyond our expectation. “ But this could equally well be said of all large earthquakes. Only the location of earthquakes can be predicted -- not their size and not their timings. Yet map of the world, with the locations of the biggest earthquakes since 1500 plotted, reveals a puzzle. It is as if humanity took a collective decision to build as many as possible of its biggest cities on or close to fault lines. This illustrates the fatal interplay between the infrequency of disaster and the shortness of human memory.. . . Page 94

Over-crowed -- the efficiency of our genes...!