Today Google has made a wonderful doodle in which you can see a doctor examining a child. The doodle is dedicated to Dr. Michiaki Takahashi, the inventor of the chickenpox vaccine. Google has paid tribute to Dr. Michiaki Takahashi on his 94th birth anniversary through a doodle. According to Google, the new Google Doodle is currently on display in India, the US, Australia, Russia, and some European and South American countries.
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Who was Dr. Takahashi?
Dr. Michiyaki Takahashi was born on this day in 1928 in Osaka, Japan. He earned his medical degree from Osaka University and joined the Microbial Disease Research Institute of Osaka University in 1959. After studying measles and polio virus, Dr. Takahashi accepted a research fellowship at Baylor College in the United States in 1963. During this time his son got chickenpox. This actually helped him find a vaccine against the disease.
Two years after moving to America, Dr. Takahashi returned to Japan in 1965, experimenting with weakened chickenpox viruses. Five years later, the vaccine was ready for human trials, and by 1974, Dr. Takahashi had succeeded in making it. Varicella is the first vaccine against the chickenpox virus.
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The vaccine, created by Dr. Takahashi in 1974, is still in use today, and is helping to protect millions of children from severe cases of the infectious viral disease. Subsequent rigorous research with immunosuppressed patients proved to be highly effective. The only varicella vaccine approved by the World Health Organization in 1984, was introduced in 1986 by the Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases in Japan.
It was also approved for worldwide use by the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare. Soon, the life-saving vaccine began to be used by 80 countries. Let us inform that Dr. Michiyaki Takahashi died in December 2013 at the age of 85.