In the Memory of Mohammad Hanifi, a Prominent Expert on the Plague in the Pasteur Institute of Iran (PII)

Due to the human plague epidemic in some regions of Kurdistan in ۱۹۴۷, research teams of the Pasteur Institute of Iran were sent to these regions for studies. Such studies are still ongoing. Mr. Mohammad Hanifi caught plague during its epidemic, and most of his relatives died of the disease. He began his official collaboration with research teams of the PII in diagnosing and controlling plague reservoir rodents in ۱۹۵۹, and it lasted until his death in ۲۰۱۵. In addition to plague, Hanifi conducted a great number of studies on other diseases such as relapsing fever, rabies and cholera. During his lifetime, he also suffered from plague and relapsing fever but he healed.The present paper reviewed his lasting activities during his work in the Pasteur Institute of Iran (PII).