In 1954, a doctor came to 11-year-old David Edmonston's bedside and asked him if he wanted “to be of service to mankind.”
By Gillian Brockell Gillian Brockell Staff writer for Retropolis Email Bio Follow April 16 at 8:00 AM David Edmonston helped make medical history when he was just a boy. Doctors created the measles vaccine after swabbing his throat when he was sick and isolating the virus cultures for the first time. They called the new vaccine the Edmonston strain, and it helped eliminate the highly infectious disease from the United States.
It isn’t clear what her objections were, since a now-disproved report linking vaccines to autism wasn’t published until 1998, and doctors would have recommended their son get a measles, mumps and rubella inoculation in the early 1980s. “It was pretty nasty, and I was pretty much out of it the whole time,” he said during an interview with The Washington Post. “So, my memories are a little vague.”
“He was kind of beaming about the thing,” Edmonston said. “They offered me a steak dinner, but I didn’t care for steak.”
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