In the duchy of medical history, few achievements are as remarkable as the development of the rabies vaccine by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur in 1885. This groundbreaking ...

But the virus’s incubation period also made rabies of interest to Pasteur—already a famous scientist in France—as a candidate for a new type of vaccine. “The time from the bite to the sickness was ...

The first rabies vaccine was developed in 1885 by Louis Pasteur. This vaccine was designed for dogs, and the first vaccination campaigns for dogs began in the early 1900s. Over time, rabies ...

When it comes to protecting your animals’ health, vaccination stands out as one of the most crucial and effective preventive ...

Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, who kept kennels of mad dogs in a crowded little laboratory and was hounded by medical criticism, had never tried his rabies vaccine on a human being before.

Louis Pasteur’s trepidation at injecting a child with the first rabies vaccine might have reflected his private knowledge of its lack of prior animal testing. A series of rodent experiments showed ...

Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur both contributed research ... In 1885, Pasteur and his student Emile Roux developed a vaccine to treat rabies by growing the virus in rabbits and attenuating it ...

I kept hoping that this was true for fairies. Louis Pasteur did more than find a cure for rabies. He also worked on the problem of beer and wine spoilage in France. Wine and beer went sour as it ...

The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur ... In 1881, he developed a vaccine for anthrax and by 1885, a vaccine for rabies. In the late 1870s the German, Robert Koch ...

Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to discover the role of microorganisms in disease and how sickness could be prevented by vaccines ... 50 dogs immune to rabies before treating ...