Herdis von Magnus

Herdis von Magnus (23 September 1912 – 15 March 1992) was a Danish polio expert. After working with Jonas Salk, she directed the first Danish polio vaccination programme with her husband Preben von Magnus.[1] She also worked on encephalitis.[2][3][4]

References
  1. "Herdis von Magnus". Gyldendal - Den Store Danske (in Danish). Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  2. Seytre, Bernard; Shaffer, Mary (2004). The Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis. Rutgers University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9780813536767.
  3. Jacobs, Charlotte DeCroes; Jacobs, Charlotte (2015). Jonas Salk: A Life. Oxford University Press. pp. 181. ISBN 9780199334414. Preben von Magnus.
  4. Vargha, Dóra (2018). Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic. Cambridge University Press. p. 141. ISBN 9781108431019.


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