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 ...

In 1885, Pasteur and his student Emile Roux developed a vaccine to treat rabies by growing the virus in rabbits and attenuating it by drying out infected spinal-cord tissue. Rabies is usually ...

his experience led him to investigate an epidemic of ascending paralysis in people treated with Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine. A series of experiments in rhesus monkeys was designed to test his ...

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 ...

Toronto Public Health says it is conserving its rabies vaccine supply due to a shortage in Ontario. The health agency instructed doctors Thursday to start rationing the city's remaining supply.

Two rabies vaccines are approved for use in Canada ... Another brand called Imovax Rabies, from Sanofi Pasteur, faces a shortage due to a “delay in shipping” that started in June and ...

Back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, few things were as terrifying as hearing a cry of “Mad dog!” Wild-eyed canines, ...

a vaccine for rabies. In the late 1870s the German, Robert Koch began to apply Pasteur’s ideas to human diseases. In doing so, he created the science of bacteriology. He identified the bacteria ...

On World Rabies Day – which is also the anniversary of French microbiologist Louis Pasteur’s death ... This means that dog vaccination should control the disease in all species.

Two rabies vaccines are approved for use in Canada ... Another brand called Imovax Rabies, from Sanofi Pasteur, faces a shortage due to a "delay in shipping" that started in June and is expected ...