Polio vaccine incidents reduced public confidence in polio vaccine leading to a drop in vaccination rates. At the same time that Salk was testing his vaccine, both Albert Sabin and Hilary Koprowski continued working on developing a vaccine using live virus. During a meeting in Stockholm to discuss polio vaccines in November 1955, Sabin presented results obtained on a group of 80 volunteers, while Koprowski read a paper detailing the findings of a trial enrolling 150 people. Sabin and Koprowski both eventually succeeded in developing vaccines. Because of the commitment to the Salk vaccine in America, Sabin and Koprowski both did their
David Bruce (microbiologist) tsetse fly vector, of African trypanosomiasis ("sleeping sickness"). He was Surgeon-General for the duration of the First World War from 1914–19 at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, London. "Brucella" is the genus and Brucellaceae is the family of the bacteria which was named after him, in recognition of his discoveries. "Brucella melitensis" is the cause of undulant fever in man and of abortion in goats. It is usually transmitted by goat's milk. "Trypanosoma brucei", the cause of sleeping sickness, is also named after him. Bruce was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1899. He served as