Daniel Elmer Salmon

degree awarded in the United States, and spent his career studying animal diseases for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

His early education was at the Mount Olive District School, Chester Institute, and Eastman Business College.

[4] Salmon opened a veterinary practice in Newark, New Jersey in 1872, and subsequently moved to Asheville, North Carolina in 1875.

[clarification needed] In 1877, he gave a series of lectures at the University of Georgia on the topic of veterinary science.

Under his leadership, the Bureau eradicated Mycoplasma mycoides, the causative agent of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia in the United States, studied and controlled Texas fever (Babesia), put in place the federal meat inspection program, began inspecting exported livestock and the ships carrying them, began inspecting and quarantining imported livestock, and studied the effect of animal diseases on public health.