Hélène Sparrow (5 June 1891 – 13 November 1970) was a pioneer in world public health, a medical doctor and microbiologist. She was noted for her work to control typhus in Poland after the First World War and then leading national programmes of vaccination against diphtheria, scarlet fever, spotted fever and relapsing fever in Poland and Tunisia into the 1960s.
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5 June 1891 Bohuslav, Kiev, Russia
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Died |
13 November 1970 (aged 79) Pietranera, Corsica, France
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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