Dr. Michiaki Takahashi was born in 1928 in Osaka, Japan.
New Delhi, Google today paid tribute to Chickenpox vaccine maker Dr. Michiaki Takahashi through a doodle on his 94th birth anniversary. Takahashi has played an important role in medical science. Takahashi developed the chickenpox vaccine in early 1974. He was the first person to do so.
Dr. Michiaki Takahashi was born in 1928 in Osaka, Japan. Today, remembering him on his 94th birthday, Google has made a special doodle. He invented the vaccine as an effective remedy for patients with infectious and serious diseases. Since then, millions of children around the world have been vaccinated.
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Dr. Takahashi (Doctor Michiaki Takahashi) did a very important work by making chickenpox vaccine. The name of this vaccine made by him is ‘Oka’. This vaccine made by Takahashi was accepted by the World Health Organization. At the same time, the chickenpox vaccine is still being used around the world.
Let us tell you that Dr. Michiaki Takahashi earned his doctorate degree from Osaka University. He then started working as a researcher at the Microbial Disease Research Institute of Osaka University in 1959. After studying measles and polio viruses, Dr. Takahashi accepted a research fellowship at Baylor College in the United States of America in 1963. During this time his son got chickenpox. Because of this also helped him to find a vaccine against this disease.
After this, in the year 1965, Dr. Michiaki Takahashi returned to Japan. During this time he began culturing the live but weakened chickenpox virus in animal and human tissues. In 1974, Takahashi developed the first vaccine targeting the virus.
Created by Dr. Takahashi, this vaccine has been used in more than 80 countries. However, in 1994 he was appointed director of the Microbial Disease Study Group at Osaka University. Takahashi died on 16 December 2013.