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Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine (né Vladimir Khavkin)

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Region: Odessa (Empire russe), Genève, Paris (Institut Pasteur), Inde britannique

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Born Vladimir (Markus-Wolf) Aronovitch Khavkin in Odessa into a Jewish family. Emigrated to Switzerland (1888) then to the Pasteur Institute in Paris. First microbiologist to develop and administer vaccines against cholera then bubonic plague, tested on a large scale in British India.

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