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Posted on April 8, 2012
Leila Denmark dies at 114; pediatrician practiced until she was 103
Denmark was the world’s fourth-oldest person when she died. She did pioneering research on whooping cough, which killed many babies, during a 1932 epidemic and helped develop a successful vaccine.
 Dr. Leila Denmark examines a child in Athens, Ga., in the 1990s. She practiced medicine for more than 70 years. (Lynn Johnson) |
April 5, 2012
Dr. Leila Daughtry Denmark, a Georgia pediatrician who was the country’s oldest known practicing physician when she retired at 103, died Sunday at her daughter’s home in Athens, Ga., her family announced. She was 114.
