Kerala PSC Repeated Questions | Category : Biology - Microbiology | General Science
Who developed the first Rabies vaccination?
[a] Rene Laennec
[b] Louis Paster
[c] Alexander Flemming
[d] Robert Koch
Answer : Option [b] - Louis Paster
More related facts :
Who developed the first Rabies vaccination?
[a] Rene Laennec
[b] Louis Paster
[c] Alexander Flemming
[d] Robert Koch
Answer : Option [b] - Louis Paster
More related facts :
- Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux, developed the first rabies vaccination in 1885. This vaccine was first used on a human on July 6, 1885, on nine-year-old Joseph Meister (1876–1940), who had been mauled by a rabid dog.
- Louis Paster was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.
- Louis Paster reduced mortality from puerperal fever and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax.
- Hydrophobia is an older term for the disease Rabies.
- Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals.
- Hydrophobia means "fear of water".
- The name Hydrophobia comes from the fact that animals and people with rabies get spasms in their throat muscles that are so painfull that they cannot eat or drink, and so will refuse water in spite of being very thirty.
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