Swiftwater
Swiftwater laboratory starts with Col. Slee
April/2009/
In 1897,
Richard Slee established Pocono Biological
Laboratories in Swiftwater — his first client was the
U.S. Army. Slee’s lab was the first and only company
in the United States to produce France’s improved
smallpox vaccine. Only one year later, Slee provided
all of the vaccines used in Cuba during the
Spanish-American War in 1898. Read
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