The U.S. Public Health Service and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Timeline
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1894‒1955
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1912
McClintic died of RMSF in route enroute to the Hygienic Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
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APRIL: Canyon Creek and Hamilton, Montana, voted to consolidate their schools in Hamilton, leaving the Canyon Creek schoolhouse empty.
JUNE: After the death deaths of prominent Montana State legislator Tyler Worden (died June 12) and his wife Mattie Candice Landers Worden (died June 6) from RMSF, the U.S. Congress mandated that the PHS return to its research on the disease. Dr. Thomas Parran was sent to Montana to discuss how the PHS and the State of Montana could cooperate. Parker was employed by PHS to continue his RMSF studies and Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer was sent by the PHS to work with him.
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