He died on Monday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C., after a long illness.
David confirmed that his father had passed away.
The Duke University School of Medicine has a reputation for its pediatrics department.
When he joined the laboratory at Children's Hospital Medical Center, he was involved in the fight against measles. The discovery of how to grow the polio virus in cultures was a breakthrough that was critical to the development of a vaccine for the disease.
The Measles virus was isolated from a 13-year-old boy by Dr. Enders. In the decade before the vaccine was available, nearly every child in the United States had at least one case of the disease by the age of 15.
The World Health Organization said that 2.6 million people died from the disease before the vaccine was available.
In 2009, Dr. Katz said he was put to work with a visitor from Yugoslavia. The process of adapting the virus to different cell systems and to eggs and eventually to chick embryo cells led to the weakness of the virus so it could not cause serious side effects.
The rhesus monkeys were inoculated with the viruses.
He said that when they put the chick virus into monkeys, they didn't develop a lot of symptoms. They were able to develop antibodies.
The use of the chick virus at the state school for children with neurological and central nervous system problems reflected a time of looser ethical standards.
At the end of several weeks, they had an immune response to the disease.
He was an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, as well as a doctor at Children's Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, for the next 10 years.
The Measles vaccine was developed by Dr. Katz. He worked with companies that wanted to make a vaccine.
I. George Miller Jr., a professor of pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine, said that he joined the lab in 1961. He was a good man for vaccine research.
A prototype vaccine was brought to Nigeria to immunize children who were susceptible to the disease because their systems had been weakened by parasites and other diseases.
Nigerian parents had a mortality rate of 5 to 15 percent if their child died from the disease. He heard people say, "You don't count your children until the disease has passed."
The children in the village got immunity from the vaccine he gave them.
In 1963, the Measles vaccine was licensed, and eight years later, it was incorporated into the Measles, Measles, and Rubella vaccine.
His father was a railroad executive and his mother was a homemaker.
He went to college to become a journalist. He went to hospital training school in San Diego after he joined the Navy.
After the war, he earned a degree in political science. He was required to take pre-med courses in order to attend the medical school. He graduated from Harvard Medical School with a bachelor's degree in 1952.
He was a resident at Children's Hospital after he finished his internship at Beth Israel. The summer of 1955 was the year that the vaccine was available.
The summer he worked in the hospital, he saw the devastating effects of the disease. He asked for permission to work with Dr.
The materials that were used in the lab were given to people who were legitimate investigators.
The Duke University School of Medicine was founded in 1968. He was the chairman of the department for 22 years.
The dean of the Duke medical school said that he was engaging in a very positive way. He was a mentor to the next generation of clinicians.
His second wife, Dr. Catherine Wilfert, is an H.I.V./AIDS researcher and professor of pediatrics at Duke. The efficacy of the drug AZT in reducing the incidence of mother-to-child transmission of H.I.V. was shown to be over 60 percent.
Dr. Wilfert was the scientific director of the Elizabeth Glazer Foundation. The doctor taught at Duke until he retired.
He has two sons, John and William, and five daughters, including Rachel Wilfert. He and Betsy Cohan divorced. His marriage to Dr. Wilfert came to an end in 2020. He died in 1980.
The doctor became a vaccine advocate. He received the 2003 Albert B. Sabin Gold medal, which is given to public health leaders who save lives through vaccines, because he was chairman of the C.D.C.'s advisory committee on immunizations from 1985 to 1993. The doctor who developed the vaccine is the one who got the medal.
Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, said that he was someone you could count on for intellectual rigor. He said he was certain that he would cause people to refuse the Covid vaccine.
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