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Waldemar Haffkine: The vaccine pioneer the world forgot


BBC News
By Joel Gunter and Vikas Pandey
BBC News
Working in Paris and India at the turn of the last century, Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine created the world s first vaccines for cholera and plague. Then an accidental mass poisoning derailed his life.
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In the spring of 1894, Waldemar Haffkine travelled to Calcutta in the Indian province of Bengal in search of cholera. Spring was cholera season in the city, and Haffkine was hopeful.
He had arrived in India the previous March armed with what he believed was a vaccine for the disease, but he struggled all year to make progress testing his creation. From the moment of his arrival, Haffkine was met with scepticism and resistance from some of the British medical establishment and the Indian public. He was not a doctor but a zoologist. And he was a Russian Jew who had trained in Odessa and developed his skills in Paris, at a time when the world of international bacteriology was factional ....

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