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  1. 1955
    Alaska Native health responsibility shifts to Indian Health Service
    The Bureau of Indian Affairs transfers responsibility for Alaska Native health care to the Indian Health ...
  2. 1952
    Polio outbreak affects many Alaska Natives
    At Ketchikan, 74 cases of polio are reported to the Alaska Department of Health. The Tsimshian tribe ...
  3. 1951
    Pathologist seeks insight into Spanish Flu epidemic
    A University of Iowa virologist tells the pathologist Johan Hultin that victims of the 1918 Spanish ...
  4. 1951
    No tuberculosis deaths reported in Hawai‘i
    For the first time since tuberculosis was diagnosed in the Hawaiian Islands, no deaths are reported ...
  5. 1946
    Antibiotics treat leprosy
    The first antibiotics to treat leprosy become available. Called sulfones, in pill form they are well ...
  6. 1943
    Navajo soldiers, workers discharged due to TB
    Active tuberculosis forces 10 to 25 percent of Navajo soldiers and wartime workers to return to their ...
  7. 1942
    Unangan evacuated, interned during WWII
    After Japan bombs Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in the Aleutian Islands, the U.S. Army evacuates more than 800 ...
  8. 1938
    Reservation doctor finds safe trachoma treatment
    An English doctor working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota ...
  9. 1936
    Measles strikes Hawaiian Islands again
    Historically, measles devastated the Native Hawaiian population, reducing it from 300,000 in 1778, to ...
  10. 1935
    Tuberculosis vaccine tested on American Indians
    American Indians are invited to enroll in an experimental study to determine the effectiveness of a ...
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