Details - Public Health Image Library(PHIL)

ID#:

13186

Caption:

This historic 1956 image depicted Leo Kartman, ScD, public health scientist, collecting field data during a plague epidemiologic investigation in an unknown location. In this particular view, Dr. Kartman had captured a wild rodent using an animal trap from the Young Animal Trap Co. This animal would be analyzed in order to determine if it was hosting any plague-infected fleas. At the time, Dr. Kartman was a staff scientist at the former San Francisco, California, Public Health Service, Communicable Disease Center, Plague Laboratory. The CDC was a branch of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), which was a branch of the former Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). Retaining its acronym, in 1970 the CDC was renamed to the Center for Disease Control, and in 1979, HEW was renamed the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Content Provider(s):

CDC

Creation Date:

1956

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