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ARTICLES RELATED TO Waldemar Haffkine - Connection with Zionism | | | |  Waldemar Haffkine - Connection with Zionism: Encyclopedia II - Waldemar Haffkine - Early yearsBorn Vladimir Aaronovich Havkin (Russian language: Владимир Ааронович Хавкин), the fourth of five children in a family of a Jewish schoolmaster in Odessa, Russian Empire, he received his education in Odessa, Berdyansk and St. Petersburg.
For a short time, young Haffkine was a member of Narodnaya Volya, but after the group turned to terrorism against public officials, he broke up with the revolutionary movement. During the pogroms in Odessa of 1880s, he participated in Jewish self-defen ...
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| | | | Waldemar Haffkine - Connection with Zionism: Encyclopedia II - Waldemar Haffkine - Anti-Cholera vaccine At the time, one of the five great cholera pandemics of the 19th century ravaged Asia and Europe. Even though Robert Koch discovered Vibrio cholerae in 1883, the medical science at that time did not consider it a sole cause of the disease. This view was supported by experiments by several biologists, notably Jaime Ferran in Spain.
Haffkine focused his research on developing cholera vaccine and produced an attenuated form of the bacterium. On July 18, 1892, Haffkine performed the first human test on himself and reported his find ...
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| | | | Waldemar Haffkine - Connection with Zionism: Encyclopedia II - Waldemar Haffkine - Anti-Plague vaccine In October 1896, an epidemic of bubonic plague struck Bombay and the government asked Haffkine to help. He embarked upon the development of a vaccine in a makeshift laboratory in a corridor of Grant Medical College. In three months of persistent work (one of his assistants got nervous breakdown, two others quit), a form for human trials was ready and on January 10, 1897 Haffkine tested it on himself. After these results were announced to the authorities, volunteers at the Byculla jail were inoculated and survived the ...
See also:Waldemar Haffkine, Waldemar Haffkine - Early years, Waldemar Haffkine - Anti-Cholera vaccine, Waldemar Haffkine - Anti-Plague vaccine, Waldemar Haffkine - Connection with Zionism, Waldemar Haffkine - Little Dreyfus affair, Waldemar Haffkine - Late years Read more here: » Waldemar Haffkine: Encyclopedia II - Waldemar Haffkine - Anti-Plague vaccine |
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