Medicine & Surgery
Haffkine's cholera and plague vaccines
1892-1897Waldemar Haffkine (Bombay)Plague Research Laboratory, BombayMaharashtra
1892
Some of the first mass-used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague.
- Dated
- 1892–1897
- As scholars put it
- 1892-1897
- Originator
- Waldemar Haffkine (Bombay)
- Source text
- Plague Research Laboratory, Bombay
- Region
- Maharashtra
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Fair to say
An India-based achievement by a Russian-born scientist, not an Indian-born one.
Path to modern innovation
The Haffkine Institute still makes vaccines.
1892Haffkine's cholera and plague vaccines
2020Builds on
1701Transmission
Developed and tested in India.
References
- 1Haffkine Institute history
Further reading
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