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ES-4796 Harry M. Meyer Jr., 72, a co-developer of the first safe and effective vaccine against German measles who later retired as head of drug regulation at the Food and Drug Administration, died of lymphoma Aug. 19 at the Kenmore, Wash., home of a stepson. Dr. Meyer and a colleague at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Paul Parkman, reported success in 1966 with the first inexpensive vaccine offering long-lasting protection against rubella and the first test to measure rubella immunity. Women who contract the viral disease during the first three months of pregnancy risk birth defects or death for their babies. Dr. Meyer's work was spurred by a 1964 epidemic of German measles that led to an estimated 12.5 million cases in the United States and birth defects in about 20,000 children. By 1988, the number of reported cases dropped to 225; there has been no big epidemic in the country since creation of the vaccine and a later, more potent, vaccine. While serving as chief of the laboratory of viral immunology at NIH, Dr. Meyer also headed a team in 1961 that carried out successful clinical trials in Africa of a vaccine for red measles, or rubeola, developed by Nobel laureate Dr. John F. Enders. That trial, involving eight West African nations and more than a million children, demonstrated the practicality of administering vaccines in remote areas using the then-experimental jet injection gun. In 1966, Dr. Meyer went on a health care fact-finding mission to Vietnam with President Lyndon B. Johnson's secretary of health, education and welfare, John W. Gardner. He traveled the country in a small plane, visiting with local elders and health care professionals. When NIH's division of biologic standards was transferred in 1972 to the FDA and renamed the bureau of biologics, Dr. Meyer was named its first director and later directed the FDA's Center for Drugs and Biologics. He was responsible for oversight on all experimental work on vaccines -- including hepatitis, pneumonia, meningitis and whooping cough -- and pharmaceuticals and approval for new medicines. He instituted independent panels to review drug labeling and manufacturers' claims for vaccines and allergens and blood products, and served on expert committees of the World Health Organization. He was also a member of a federal AIDS task force during the first five years of that epidemic. Dr. Meyer retired in 1986 as assistant surgeon general, with the rank of rear admiral in the Public Health Service. Until 1993, he was president of the medical research division of American Cyanamid Co. in New York, directing development of pharmaceuticals. Dr. Meyer, who was known as Hank, was a native of Palestine, Tex., and a graduate of Hendrix College in Arkansas. It later granted him an honorary doctorate. He received his medical degree from the University of Arkansas and did a residency in pediatrics at the University of North Carolina. He served in the Army, interning at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and working at its Institute of Research as a virologist. His work included the first clinical trial of a smallpox vaccine administered with the jet injector, a device that later helped eradicate the disease. He also worked at Walter Reed on isolation of the Asian influenza virus. He joined NIH in 1959 as head of the virus research section in the division of biologics standards. Dr. Meyer wrote 105 articles and textbook chapters and held patents derived from his research. His honors included Meritorious and Distinguished Service medals of the Public Health Service and awards from national medical societies, colleges and other organizations. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and other national pediatric, epidemiologic, research and medical organizations.
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