Rabies vaccine
Vacuna antirrábica
- Date
- 1885 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux (Joseph Meister, 6-7-1885)
- People
- 👤 Émile Roux1853–1933👤 Louis Pasteur1822–1895
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
First human vaccine using a virus attenuated in the laboratory, given after a bite. It showed that vaccines could be made against diseases without knowing the pathogen.
What it led to
- The Institut Pasteur (1888) and an international network of institutes
- Systematic vaccinology (typhus, cholera, plague)
- Public health as a matter of state policy
Built on
- Germ theory and pasteurization1857-1865
- Jenner's vaccine
- Anthrax vaccine (1881)
Made possible
- Haffkine's plague vaccine1897
- Tetanus antitoxin and toxoid1890–1924
- Tetanus vaccine
- Pasteur Institute
- Live attenuated viral vaccines