The Haffkine Institute was established on 10, January, 1899 by Dr. Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, an orthodox Jewish Russian scientist from the Pasteur Institute, that assigned him to work in India, then in the throes of major plague and cholera outbreaks.
At this time, British health officials began to press for widespread vaccination using Waldemar Haffkine’s plague vaccine, although the government stressed that inoculation was not compulsory.
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The British colonial government in India pressed medical researcher Waldemar Haffkine to develop a plague vaccine.
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