The whole world is waiting for a vaccine, to combat the coronavirus pandemic. But this is not the first pandemic in the world. Recently, the Bubonic Plague made a comeback in one of China's cities and this gives rise to a question that how did we, Barodians, fight against the Bubonic Plague.
When Baroda was affected by the plague, to fight against the situation, Maharaja Sayajirao III invited the famous Russian bacteriologist, Dr Waldemar Haffkine in the year 1897. Waldemar was the first-ever microbiologist who developed and administered vaccines against Cholera and Bubonic plague, by first testing these vaccines on himself.
In this picture, Haffkine can be seen carrying out inoc
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