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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Lydia Edwards Dies; Physician Guided Tuberculosis Research

November 13, 2001

Lydia B. Edwards, 96, a Public Health Service physician who retired in 1973 as a medical director assigned to TB research operations at the National Institutes of Health, died of cardiac arrest Nov. 7 at a retirement facility in Bedford, Mass. During World War II, Edwards worked for the UN in Yugoslavia, setting up medical care systems in war-torn areas. From 1948 to 1955, she helped oversee a UN program to eradicate TB in Denmark. Her work took her throughout Europe, India, Russia and Japan.


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Adapted from:
Washington Post
11.09.01

This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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