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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a stir here to-day when it became known that the dog which bit three persons on Sunday night had been declared by the Pasteur Institute ... a pronounced case of rabies.

However, Pasteur used a vaccine prepared according to Toussaint ... His report claimed that he had made 50 dogs immune to rabies before treating the boy, but his notebooks revealed that he ...