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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated November 7, 1962 partially reads, "Dr. Milton J. Huppert is on the trail of a disease with many faces. And he's enlisting the aid of high school students in the San Fernando and Antelope Valleys and other parts of Los Angeles County. The malady is valley fever. When it shows up it can look like tuberculosis, cancer, a cold, flu or pneumonia--almost any respiratory disease, says Dr. Huppert, who is chief of the mycology laboratory at the San Fernando Administration Hospital."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Veterans Administration Hospital (San Fernando, Calif.) Veterans Administration Hospital (San Fernando, Calif.)--Employees Medical research personnel--California--Los Angeles Mycologists--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Laboratories--California--Los Angeles Laboratories--California--Los Angeles--Equipment and supplies Interiors--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles) Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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