Almost immediately after he got to America, he was called to Iowa City, where a deadly outbreak of typhoid fever had struck. Shekwana was brought in to work with the Iowa State Board of Health bacteriology lab—an entire floor of the new Iowa City Medical Building was given over to his lab team. There Shekwana investigated, among other things, the tie between unpasteurized milk and typhoid. But he didn’t stop there; he promoted new public health regulations in Iowa and beyond.
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