French scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tested an anti-rabies vaccine

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On Jul. 6, 1885, French scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tested anti-rabies vaccine on nine-year old Joseph Meister who had been bitten numerous times by an infected dog. The boy did not contract the disease.

Pasteur’s colleague Emile Roux had been working with a killed vaccine derived from the spinal cords of infected rabbits. The vaccine had been tested only on dogs before its first human trial.

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Source: Pasteur Foundation
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