Bruce Bespalow Dan, M.D. (December 20, 1946 – September 6, 2011)Social Security Death Index (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2011. was one of the lead American researchers with the Toxic Shock Syndrome Task Force who established the link between toxic shock syndrome and the use of tampons.
Dan died September 6, 2011, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, Maryland, from complications stemming from a bone marrow transplant received to cure leukemia. He is buried in Garden of Remembrance Cemetery, Clarksburg, Maryland.See obituary, The Washington Post, September 8, 2011.
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