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.

Credit: Anti-cholera inoculation : report to the Government of India / by W.M. Haffkine. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of ...

Jewish bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine is undoubtedly the hero of this book. He developed vaccines for cholera and the plague and was a one-man show traveling through Asia vaccinating people.

Village on the Seine: Tradition and Change in Bonnieres, 1815-1914. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1978). "Waldemar Haffkine, Medical Science, and Jewish Idealism," Occasional Papers in ...

As director of the plague research laboratory, he conducted experiments on plague vaccines along with Waldemar Haffkine. He was one of the first to use Henry Littlejohn's analytical techniques on a ...

Haffkine Institute, the 116-year-old historical research institute in Parel that has done cutting-edge research work in the field of infectious diseases, has worked out a homeopathic medication ...

Stephen Buranyi is a writer who specialises in science and the environment. Simon Schama wants the post-pandemic world to learn from the case of Waldemar Haffkine: a tragic story of how prejudice and ...

In the feminist thinker’s essays of the 1970s, members of her sex are portrayed as political pawns rather than human… Simon Schama wants the post-pandemic world to learn from the case of Waldemar ...

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Ron Haffkine, a Grammy-winning record producer and manager known for his work with Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, has died. He was 84. Haffkine died Sunday at his home in Mexico after a brief bout ...