October 5 in Medical History
27 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Paris theologian Jean de Fayt warns against the Flagellants at Avignon
- Bobby Jones's Rare DiseaseSportswriter Robert Ruark first reports golfing great Bobby Jones 's rare spinal disease (syringomyelia), which prevents him from playing any form of golf again
- The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held
- Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
- Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks
- Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their work on roundworm and to Youyou Tu for her work on malaria
- Right to DieGovernor of California Jerry Brown signs a bill granting terminally ill patients the "right to die"
- Nobel Peace Prize is awarded jointly to Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad for their "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war"
- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte reveals he has a neuromuscular disease, myasthenia gravis, which causes him health problems
- India's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 100,000, with 6.6 million known cases, the third highest death toll in the world behind the US and Brazil
- Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of hepatitis C virus
- WHO estimates 10% of the world's population may have been infected with COVID-19, more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases
- Trump Leaves HospitalUS President Donald Trump leaves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center while still infectious with COVID-19 and returns to the White House
Born on this day
- Paul FlemingGerman poet, born in Hartenstein, Saxony (d. 1640)
- Peyton RousAmerican pathologist and Nobel Prize laureate (1966) who discovered the Rous sarcoma virus, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1970)
- Elda AndersonAmerican physicist and health researcher (died 1961)
- Fritz FischerGerman physician and Nazi war criminal, born in Berlin (d. 2003)
- Douglas RangerBritish surgeon, born in Furness, Lancashire (d. 1997)
- Rosalie GowerCanadian nurse and politician (died 2013)
- André KuipersDutch astronaut and physician, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died on this day
- Ján Andrej SegnerSlovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician, dies at 72
- Johann Andreas SegnerSlovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (born 1704)
- J. SlauerhoffDutch poet, writer and ship's doctor (Seaman's Grave), dies of ill health at 38
- Frederic LewyGerman neurologist (b. 1885)
- Luc JournetBelgian physician and religious leader (Order of Zonnetempel), dies in a mass murder-suicide at 46
- William H. DobelleAmerican biomedical engineer (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 nominee), dies at 62
- James W. Holley IIIAmerican dentist and politician (born 1926)