File:Anna Pabst 1896-1935 (30794405487).jpg

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Description Anna Pabst died from meningitis on December 24, 1935. While le inoculating a rabbit in her NIH laboratory with meningitis, the rabbit had moved and some of the culture sprayed into her eyes. Although Pabst had washed her eyes, she had made a terrible discovery: meningitis can infect someone not just through the skin. Pabst was the first woman killed in the line of duty at NIH. Born in Brooklyn, she got her BA and MS from George Washington University. She joined Dr. Sarah Branham’s laboratory at the NIH in 1931, spending most of her time in research on meningitis. Her death at the start of a meningitis epidemic in Washington, D.C. spurred Branham and her colleagues to make seminal contributions to the development of effective vaccines against meningitis. On December 27, 1935, instead of giving a scheduled talk to the American Society of Bacteriologists in New York, Pabst was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. She was 39.
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Author NIH History Office from Bethesda
Camera location38° 52′ 55.01″ N, 77° 01′ 03.33″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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