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