1. Russian-Jewish bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine developed the first cholera vaccine in July 1892. 2. The World Health Organization flew around 1 million anti-cholera vaccines to the country. 3. Examples include rabies vaccine, anthrax vaccine, cholera vaccine and smallpox vaccine. 4. Haffkine focused his research on developing cholera vaccine and produced an attenuated form of the bacterium. 5. Live attenuated polio, some typhoid, and some cholera vaccines are given orally to produce immunity in the bowel. 6. Pittman also served as a consultant to the World Health Organization in formulating the WHO requirement for cholera vaccine . 7. Japan's Kyodo News Service reported that North Korea has asked for cholera vaccines from U . N . relief agencies. 8. To head off competitors, Pasteur had purposely withheld reporting the simple method he used to prepare the chicken cholera vaccine . 9. Researchers are working to get measles vaccines from a tobacco plant, rabies vaccines from spinach and a cholera vaccine from bananas. 10. Cholera vaccines offer protection in only about 50 percent of people and are of little practical value in controlling an epidemic.
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