Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine (* 15. March 1860 in Priluki (Ukraine), "† 25 October 1930 in Lausanne) was a bacteriologist.

Haffkine studied medicine in Odessa, attained a doctorate 1884 and found then an employment in the zoo-logical museum of the university. To some essays to the physiology Haffkine went only to Basel over under Ugo ship, then to Paris, in order to work under Louis Pasteur.

In the year 1893 it went to 45000 humans to India where it against Cholera inoculated. It reduced the death rate thereby by 70%.

From 1895 on Haffkine worked as the first with a protective inoculation against Cholera and plague, with which the killed exciter was used. From 1899 to 1905 Haffkine led then the Haffkine institute designated after it, a laboratory active in the area of the Pestilenz bacteriology in Bombay (India).

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