Noel St George Hyslop (20 April 1921 – 1979) was a British physician, veterinary surgeon and public health officer. Hyslop was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, on 20 April 1921. He served in

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in North Africa and the Middle East in several regiments of the

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including the

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, Cameron Highlanders and London Scottish, achieving the rank of

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. He was awarded the

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(TD). Following the war, he qualified in medicine from the

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in 1951, and then joined the Colonial Service and served in

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from 1952 to 1957. In 1957 he joined the School of Tropical Medicine at the

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and then became senior lecturer in the Department of Veterinary Medicine,

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, where he taught clinical pathology and the microbiology of infectious diseases. Later he joined the

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, Pirbright, as head of the Inactivated Vaccine Research Unit. He immigrated to Canada in 1968, where he was named head of the Immunology Section at Canada's Animal Diseases Research Institute. At the time of his death, he was acting director (Western Laboratories) in the Animal Pathology Division of the Department of Health. He was editor-in-chief of the ''

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,'' and chairman of the Permanent Committee on the Effects of Climate and Weather on Diseases of Animals. Hyslop published numerous scientific articles which contributed major insights to the spread of viral diseases, and in particular to the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Virus. His work on spreading of FMD was the basis for national agriculture policies in Canada and UK for handling outbreaks of FMD and other viral diseases in livestock. He also contributed a novel method of virus purification which was used in the isolation of the FMD virus by his colleague Fred Brown FRS. He was a Fellow of the

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, Fellow of the

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and a fellow of the Royal Society of Health, as well as several other scientific and professional organizations. His son,

Peter St George-Hyslop Peter Henry St George-Hyslop, OC, FRS, FRSC, FRCPC, (born July 10, 1953) is a British and Canadian medical scientist, neurologist and molecular geneticist who is known for his research into neurodegenerative diseases. St George-Hyslop is one of ...

, professor of experimental neuroscience at the

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and the

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, is known for his work on

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