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The remarkable life of Alexandre Yersin

Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943), a Swiss-French doctor and bacteriologist who made extraordinary contributions to medicine and the people of Vietnam, is honoured in new documentary that features his life’s work. In the documentary, Hung Nguyen-Viet, a Vietnamese national and co-leader of the Animal and Human Health program at the International Livestock Research Institute, speaks about the impact of Dr Yersin’s work

The remarkable life of Alexandre Yersin

Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943), a Swiss-French doctor and bacteriologist who made extraordinary contributions to medicine and the people of Vietnam, is honoured in new documentary that features his life’s work.

In the documentary, Hung Nguyen-Viet, a Vietnamese national and co-leader of the Animal and Human Health program at the International Livestock Research Institute, speaks about the impact of Dr Yersin’s work on his own career as a 21st-Century scientist working in the area of One Health.