{"id":1413,"date":"2013-02-05T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T16:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2013-02-05T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T16:46:14","slug":"kathy-fait-to-speak-on-the-history-of-the-state-hygienic-laboratory-at-the-univ-of-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/02\/05\/kathy-fait-to-speak-on-the-history-of-the-state-hygienic-laboratory-at-the-univ-of-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Fait to speak on \u201cThe History of the State Hygienic Laboratory at the Univ of Iowa\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Fait,\u00a0 Librarian, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fait lecture\" href=\"http:\/\/hosted.lib.uiowa.edu\/histmed\/documents\/MedicalHOMSFait228.pdf\">\u00a0\u201cThe History of the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:30-6:30\u00a0 Room 401, Univ. of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences<\/p>\n<p>In 1904, some of the most common health concerns for Iowans were also some of the most deadly.\u00a0 Typhoid fever, tuberculosis, rabies and diphtheria all were tested at the State Hygienic Laboratory during its first year in operation.\u00a0 Today, the state agency tests for a long list of reportable diseases; examines samples of air, water and soil; \u201cfingerprints\u201d and helps track foodborne illnesses; screens newborn babies for metabolic diseases; identifies influenza and other communicable diseases to the DNA level; and helps public health agencies at both the national and state level to keep people safe.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation chronicles the Hygienic Laboratory\u2019s evolution from diphtheria to Salmo-nella, and the stories behind the testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Fait,&nbsp; Librarian, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa &nbsp;&ldquo;The History of the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa&rdquo;&nbsp; &nbsp;Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:30-6:30&nbsp; Room 401,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}