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Pasteur's vaccine. In the 1870s, the French chemist Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) applied his previous method of immunising chickens against chicken cholera to anthrax, which affected cattle, and thereby aroused widespread interest in combating other diseases with the same approach.
Following the success of the anthrax vaccination experiment, Pasteur focused on the microbial origins of disease. His investigations of animals infected by pathogenic microbes and his studies of the microbial mechanisms that cause harmful physiological effects in animals made him a pioneer in the field of infectious pathology .
During the mid- to late 19th century, Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and discovered how to make vaccines from weakened, or attenuated, microbes. He developed the earliest vaccines against fowl cholera, anthrax, and rabies.
Early work on the development of a vaccine against anthrax in animals was carried out in the 1880s by W. S. Greenfield and by Louis Pasteur (Turnbull, 1991). What became known as Pasteur's vaccine used an encapsulating nontoxigenic strain of B. anthracis administered to animals in two doses that differed in their degrees of heat attenuation ...
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Sep 28, 2020 · Awareness of Edward Jenner’s pioneering studies of smallpox vaccination (Milestone 2) led Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) to propose that vaccines could be found for all virulent diseases.
- Caroline Barranco
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Jun 13, 2017 · His work on developing an anthrax vaccine helped scientists understand how people (and animals) got sick. On this day in 1877, Pasteur went to a slaughterhouse at Chartres, France, to get...
Apr 18, 2022 · He created four vaccines (fowl cholera, anthrax, pig erysipelas, and rabies) in the paths of his precursors, Henri Toussaint (anthrax vaccine) and Pierre Victor Galtier (rabies vaccine). He generalized the word “vaccination” coined by Richard Dunning, Edward Jenner’s friend.
