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Place of Birth: Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, France
About Georges Girard
- Georges Girard (February 4, 1888 – February 19, 1985) was a French bacteriologist born in Isigny-sur-Mer, Calvados. He studied medicine in Bordeaux, earning his bachelor's degree in 1911, and his medical doctorate in 1913.
- During World War I he was a doctor of colonial troops, receiving the Croix de Guerre in 1916.
- From 1917 to 1920 he was a physician in charge of the bacteriology laboratory at the hospital in Diego-Suarez.
- In 1922 he was appointed director of the Institute of Bacteriology of Madagascar (Institut Pasteur of Antananarivo), a position he maintained until 1940.. During his tenure in Madagascar, Girard conducted studies of typhoid, tuberculosis, leprosy and especially bubonic plague.
- Beginning in 1898 there had been sporadic outbreaks of the plague in the country, and none of the previously developed vaccines were strong or durable enough to handle the disease.
- In the 1930s, Girard and his assistant, Jean Robic developed an anti-plague vaccine known as the "EV strain".
- The EV strain had excellent results against the plague, and inoculation was carried out by Colonial Army medical officers and auxiliary Malagasy physicians.
- For decades afterwards this strain has been used worldwide to combat bubonic plague. In 1941 he succeeded Edouard Dujardin-Beaumetz (1868-1947) as director of plague services at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
- Here he conducted research of pasteurellosis, tularaemia and the bacillus- Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
- From 1954 to 1958 he was president of the Société de pathologie exotique
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