“The Story of Louis Pasteur’s Revolutionary Rabies Vaccine Discovery”

On May 20, 1884, Louis Pasteur presented the results of his rabies vaccine research at the Paris Academy of Sciences.

Starting in 1870, Pasteur decided to develop his research activity on contagious diseases, which he assumed were due to infectious microbial germs that had managed to penetrate the diseased body.

Thanks to his research, he was able to develop the vaccine against rabies or hydrophobia. He managed to combat the virus with a vaccine obtained by successive inoculations in rabbits.

The effectiveness of this vaccine was successfully tested in July 1885 with a child who had been bitten by a dog with rabies. Thanks to the vaccine, the child did not develop the disease.