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Hyslop was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, on 20 April 1921.
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He was awarded the Territorial Decoration (Territorial Decoration). Following World World War II, he qualified in medicine from The University of Liverpool in 1951, and then joined the Colonial Service and served in Kenya from 1952 to 1957. In 1957 he joined the School of Tropical Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and then became Senior Lecturer in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bristol, where he taught clinical pathology and the microbiology of infectious diseases.
Later he joined the Animal Virus Research Institute, 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 International Journal of Biometeorology, 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 United Kingdom for handling outbreaks of FMD and other viral diseases in livestock.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Health, as well as several other scientific and professional organizations.
