Nicole Grasset (18 April 1927 – 29 August 2009) was a Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist. Grasset was the senior smallpox advisor for the South-East Asia Regional Office (SEARO) of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1971 through the end of the WHO smallpox eradication campaign.[1] Early life Grasset was the daughter of a famous Swiss microbiologist. She was born in Garches. She is the cousin of doctor Derville Michel. She grew up in South Africa. After studying medicine, she worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.[2] At age 20, she wrote a ‘Plan of Life,’ her life’s mission statement…
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Sonja Buckley (June 13, 1918 – February 2, 2005[1]) was a Swiss-born virologist. She was the first person to culture Lassa virus, the causative agent of Lassa fever, a potentially deadly disease that originated in Africa.[2][3][4] Biography Sonja Grob was born in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1941, she married Dr. John J. Buckley, a pathologist who was also studying in Zürich. Sonja Buckley was awarded her medical degree in 1944 from the University of Zurich, and she was later a microbiology instructor there.[2] With her husband, she emigrated to the United States in 1947, as both of them had already arranged…