A Medical Entomologist Battles Bubonic Plague in Madagascar
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 6, 2023
Determined to expand her knowledge to fight plague in her homeland, Miarinjara traveled to Hamilton, Montana, after getting her PhD to do a postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories. Her mentor was B. Joseph Hinnebusch, chief of the plague section of the NIH Laboratory of Bacteriology, and a leading expert on the interactions between Yersinia pestis and its flea vectors.
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