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Frederick Percival Mackie

Colonel Frederick Percival Mackie CSI OBE KHS FRCP FRCS (19 February 1875 – 15 July 1944) was an English physician who served in the Indian Medical Service between 1901 and 1931 working on the incidence, transmission, and pathology of insect-borne tropical diseases. He discovered the vectors for relapsing fever and kala-azar. He had important administrative responsibilities in Iraq during the First World War and emerged as a leading figure in Indian medical science, public health, and tropical hygiene between the wars as director of the Haffkine Institute in Bombay (Mumbai).

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