About the Book: Vaccine Nation
INDIAS IMMUNIZATION STORY FROM COLONIAL TESTING GROUND TO GLOBAL VACCINE HUB
When Edward Jenner pricked a young boys arm in 1796 to inoculate him against
smallpox, he ignited a revolution. Vaccination would go on to transform human
health, enabling the eradication and prevention of deadly diseases and saving
countless lives. But India remained on the margins of these developments its
people often subjects of Western trials, but its own scientific institutions
underdeveloped.
This began to change in 1893, when Soviet-born scientist Waldemar Haffkine
arrived in Calcutta to combat endemic cholera. His pioneering efforts laid the
groundwork for Indias first