After an absence of twenty-one years, measles in epidemic form appeared on St. George Island in the Pribilofs in September 1963. Prophylactic gamma-globulin and, later, live attenuated measles-virus vaccine and gamma-globulin were used to control the outbreak.
Notes
From: Fortuine, Robert et al. 1993. The Health of the Inuit of North America: A Bibliography from the Earliest Times through 1990. University of Alaska Anchorage. Citation number 1964.
Cited in: Fortuine, Robert. 1968. The Health of the Eskimos: a bibliography 1857-1967. Dartmouth College Libraries. Citation number 790.