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Obituary In Memoriam Patricia Ann Webb (1925–2005) atricia Ann Webb, M.D., a unique figure in the field of medical virology, died on January 24 2005 at P the age of 79 years. For many years, she served as a th
distinguished career officer in the US Public Health Service (USPHS). She made important contributions to our knowledge of arboviruses and viral hemorrhagic fevers, serving the USPHS in multiple challenging overseas assignments in the tropics. Patricia Webb will be remembered as an inquisitive, tough and exacting scientist-physician by the many young virologists she inspired to fulfill careers exploring emerging viral diseases. Pat was born in Cambridge, England on April 5, 1925. Her father, Robert A. Webb, M.D. was an American-born and educated (Johns Hopkins) pathologist who became a renowned Professor of Pathology at the University of Oxford, interested in the pathogenic role of bacteria, such as Listeria; he was a close associate of Howard Florey. Patricia, her sister and brother were dispatched to the United States during the Blitz (1940). In 1945, Patricia graduated when only 20 years old from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, and went on to medical school at Tulane University, graduating in 1950. After a rotating internship at St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital, Pontiac Michigan, she completed residency training in pediatrics (1951–53) at Kern General Hospital, Bakersfield, California. In the summer of 1952, Pat was deeply influenced by the occurrence of one of the largest epidemics of arboviral encephalitis in the history of the United States. Hundreds of children were hospitalized with western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE), the highest attack rate being in infants
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