Friday, September 10, 2021

NIH Museum Honors Montana Spotted Fever Schoolhouse Lab

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Friday, Sept. 10, 2021

NIH Museum Honors Montana Spotted Fever Schoolhouse Lab

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The schoolhouse turned laboratory, circa 1921. Notice the U.S. Public Health Service Laboratory sign. This photo was taken before a fence and animal cages were built.

One of the forerunners to NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories – the Schoolhouse Lab at Canyon Creek, just west of Hamilton, Montana – is a focal point this month for an online exhibit from the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum. For the past two years Museum staff collected and organized information and photos to recognize the 100th anniversary of the Montana laboratory that developed a vaccine against Rocky Mountain spotted fever – a devastating tickborne disease that terrified locals in the early 1900s. The site includes eight sections, a timeline and nearly 80 photos, most taken by the researchers or their colleagues.

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