Alexandre Yersin (1863 - 1943), a Swiss and French physician and bacteriologist, is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus...
Alexandre Yersin (1863 - 1943), a Swiss and French physician and bacteriologist, is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest. He contributed greatly to the world healthcare.
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| Alexandre Yersin's grave in Khanh Hoa. |
With 50 years of his rest life in Khanh Hoa Province, he was affectionately called Ong Nam by the local people.
Many vestiges about Dr. Yersin have remained in Khanh Hoa. Especially, Yersin’s grave has been recognized a national historical vestige visited by thousands of domestic and international tourists a year.
His house on Hon Ba Mount, 60km from Nha Trang City, has been well kept and restored. This is the place where he did research and tried to acclimatize the quinine tree which produced the first known effective remedy for preventing and treating malaria.
Yasaka-Saigon-Nhatrang Hotel has had an honor to be assigned by Khanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee to preserve and manage Yersin’s Grave and Hon Ba Tourist Site.
Over the past years, the hotel has done its good job in keeping and restoring the places as the destinations for tourists and local residents to commemorate Dr. Yersin who devoted his life to microbiology, virology and epidemic research.
The 150th anniversary of the birth and 70th anniversary of the death of Alexandre Yersin will be celebrated in Grand Function Hall of Yasaka-Saigon-Nhatrang Hotel, 18 Tran Phu, Nha Trang on March 1.
This will be a good opportunity for reviewing his contribution to human healthcare through documentaries and the film named Mr. Nam’s Heart.
Besides, incense-lighting and wreath-laying ceremonies at his statutes at Yersin Park and his grave in Suoi Dau have already been held.
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