Fragile
Theatre
Description
Description
In the summer of 1894, De Alexandre Yersin from Vietnam and Professor Shibasaburo Kitasato from Japan came to Hong Kong to assist the government in fighting an outbreak of the plague – an outbreak that was to spread across the world. Which one of them made the discovery of the bacillus was a matter of dispute at the time, but nonetheless the microbe was seen through the microscope. It was the first time anywhere in the world that the tiny organism, which for centuries had brought death and horror to millions of people around the globe, had yielded its identity to humanity’s advancing technologies, thus opening the way to vaccines and an understanding of the disease’s transmission.
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