Exclusive: Dramas pay homage to Waldemar Haffkine, who created vaccines for bubonic plague and cholera
Waldemar Haffkine, pictured in his lab, created the world’s first cholera and bubonic plague vaccines.Waldemar Haffkine, pictured in his lab, created the world’s first cholera and bubonic plague vaccines.
The historian, Simon Schama, is acting as an unofficial adviser on the scripts, having researched Haffkine for his book, Foreign Bodies: the Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science. Yet Haffkine was a man who would stop at nothing to save lives, even risking his own life by injecting himself with bubonic plague and cholera to develop his vaccines.
Haffkine was born in Odesa, now in Ukraine, and was a shy man whose talent brought him to the attention of Louis Pasteur, the French microbiologist, and then the British government, which sent him to Colonial India to tackle cholera and the bubonic plague. Their antisemitism drove them to accuse him of killing 19 people in the Punjab in 1902, who died from tetanus poisoning after being injected.
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