| Date | 1897 |
| Author | Haffkine |
| Contribution | Tested a killed-bacterium vaccine for the prevention of plague. |
| Reference | Foster |
| Notes | He had developed the vaccine while working in India during the previous year. Vaccination of more than 11,000 people was judged to be about 95% successful. (The deaths that occurred in one village, at the beginning of the 20th Century, are believed to be due to gross misuse of the vaccine.) This work was highly controversial; see "The Story of Dr. Haffkine" by Mark Popovsky, Progress Publishers, Moscow; undated (W.C.C. collection). Popovsky attributed many of Haffkine's problems to the inept and unscientific character of British colonial administration -- which may be a sound analysis, but Popovsky's book was published in the U.S.S.R. and other sources should be consulted. See 1897 Haffkine. |
| Category | Immunology |
| Pathogen Class | Bacteria |
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