Peter George Higgins

During his time as a senior, then consultant, virologist (1961-71) he established a new outreach Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) virology laboratory in Cirencester in the Cotswolds. For the 10 years from 1971 to 1981 Peter worked sequentially at the virus reference laboratory at Colindale, a...

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Published in:BMJ (Online) 2021-01, Vol.372, p.n51
Main Authors: Harries, Jenny, Harries, Katherine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bacteriology
Careers
Chicken pox
Colds
Common cold
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Epidemiology
Laboratories
Lung cancer
Public health
Virology
Viruses
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Summary:During his time as a senior, then consultant, virologist (1961-71) he established a new outreach Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) virology laboratory in Cirencester in the Cotswolds. For the 10 years from 1971 to 1981 Peter worked sequentially at the virus reference laboratory at Colindale, as consultant virologist and clinical lecturer in virology at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Public Health Laboratory, and, finally, as microbiologist (virologist) for the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization at the Caribbean Epidemiological Centre in Trinidad. Consultant virologist and deputy director of the common cold research unit, Salisbury (b 1926; q Westminster Medical School, London, 1950; MD, Dip Bact, FRCPath), died from old age with lung cancer on 11 January 2020
ISSN:1756-1833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.n51