Prof Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch

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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (December 11, 1843 – May 27, 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. He was one of the main founders of modern bacteriology. He is well-known as he identified the specific causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax and for his development of Koch's postulates. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905. Source: Wikipedia) On 10 February 1897, Robert Koch discovered a vaccine successful in the prevention of rinderpest. He was brought to South Africa by the Cape Government to investigate and find a cure for a cattle plague, which broke out during the last decade of the 19th century. During his stay he found that an inoculation of bile from an infected animal safeguarded the rest of the herd. (Source: South African History Online)