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The Untold Story of Ernest Hankin
In 1899 Hafkeen Haffkin is the head of a facility in Mumbai then of course called Bombay which is the first mass production line of vaccines against bubonic play. He becomes very famous and I mean extraordinarily famous back in Britain people like Joseph Lister who was responsible for discovering how antiseptic material can stop people from dying of sepsis. But when he goes back to India he meets with profound suspicion and hostility really so he has to battle his way through nonetheless. In 1901 there's an extraordinary quite upsetting period in his life isn't it yeah well it's a tragic catastrophe even as a huge outbreak of bubonic play occurs all over India in the wake of a serious moment
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