Karl Friedrich Meyer (May 19, 1884 - April 27, 1974), was a Swedish born Americanpathologist. His career was dedicated to work on infectious disease, he worked on Brucellae and the human and animals disases it causes, he discovered the virus that caused western equine encephalitis and a number of similar viruses, he discovered the cause of psittacosis after falling ill with it himself. He developed a vaccine agains pneumonic plague that was used in World War II and he developed food commercail processing standard that prevented botulism contamination. May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Pathology (in ancient Greek pathos = feeling, pain, suffering and logos = discourse or treatise, i. ... Three types of viruses: a bacterial virus, otherwise called a bacteriophage (left center); an animal virus (top right); and a retrovirus (bottom right). ... In medicine (pulmonology), psittacosis -- also known as parrot disease, parrot fever, and ornithosis -- is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Mycoplasma psittaci and contracted from parrots, macaws, cockatiels, and parakeets. ... Plague redirects here. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Botulism (from Latin botulus, sausage) is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin, botulin, that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. ...
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Lederer, S. E. Meyer, Karl Friedrich. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000.
Meyer was on the faculty of the University of California for sixty-one years, including thirty years as Director of the George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research (1924-1954), the Universitys first biology research facility.
Meyer, or "KF" as he was familiarly known, was educated in his native Switzerland, and came to Berkeley in 1913 as Associate Professor of Bacteriology and Protozoology.
In 1928, Meyer began to refer to the disease in California as 'sylvatic plague' and predicted that "plague is going to be an infection with which we have to learn to live." He proposed that large reservoirs of Pasteurella pestis reside in wild rodents.
KarlF. Meyer (or "K.F." as he was known to the scientific world) was born in 1884 in Basel, Switzerland.
Meyer was well received as the teacher of medical microbiology, and was a full Professor by the age of thirty.
Meyer organized the Department of Bacteriology at UC, and in the college of Letters and Science at Berkeley, serving as Chairman of both departments until 1948, while also directing the affairs of the Hooper foundation.
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