Anthony A. Hajna

by Joseph K. Malone

Introduction

I am terrified if I got sick by salmonellosis. If you use soap destroy the salmonellosis. I very interested in Anthony A. Hajna because he was busy man and traveled different places. He worked hard to discovered salmonellosis. I think he had no vacation, he continued work all the time. He should have retired early. I won't work hard like him no way it too much for me. I like work regular. He missed his family and wife. But he was good because he helped identify salmonellosis, that wonderful. Deaf can do it. It very interesting because he visited Amish.

About Anthony A. Hajna

Anthony A. Hajna born in 1907. Anthony A. Hajna born in Chicopee,Massachusetts. When Anthony A. Hajna had meningitis disease five year old, he become deaf .A coal peddler recognized Anthony couldn't hear, coal peddler told his parents that he had a nephew was deaf. He told Anthony's parent he should join Mystic Oral School for the Deaf. Coal peddler helped Anthony's parents, then Anthony joined that school.

He graduated from Mystic Oral School for the Deaf. He worked supervisor of boys in the Mystic Oral School for the Deaf . Then later he went to the Gallaudet University. Then he obtained Rockefeller Fellowship and studied at John Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore.

He worked U.S. Public Health in Cincinnati,Ohio where he involved with enteric bacteria. He researched about salmonellosis. The Amish got sick by salmonellosis at picnic. He wondered that people got sick. He discovered that people got bacteria of egg from they didn't washed dirty hands then people cooked then that person ate it worse sick. That why people samonellosis. If people break egg then on hands get paper towel wipe off it not work because salmonellosis in the hand. Use special soap name "Dial" goo d kill salmonellosis. He love to major about bacteria.

He visited schools and encouraged to the students become deaf scientists. Hearing people think deaf can't do it but he become famous in deaf science. He died in 1992.

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