Diary
Hugh Pennington: Smallpox Scares, 5 September 2002
“... from such stocks and occurred not in Africa, Asia or South America, but in England. In 1978 Henry Bedson was professor of medical microbiology at Birmingham University. His father, Sir Samuel, had also been a microbiologist, whose work on psittacosis had been recognised by a proposal to call the group of organisms to which it belonged Bedsonia. ... ”