they found a cure for rabies in 2004.
they found a cure for rabies in 2004.
when did they find a cure for rabies?
2004
pasteur produced the first vaccine for rabies by growing the virus in rabbits, and then weakening it by drying the affected nerve tissue. the rabies vaccine was initially created by emile roux, a french doctor and a colleague of pasteur, who had produced a killed vaccine using this method. the vaccine had been tested in 50 dogs before its first human trial. this vaccine was used on 9-year-old joseph meister, on july 6, 1885, after the boy was badly mauled by a rabid dog. this was done at some personal risk for pasteur, since he was not a licensed physician and could have faced prosecution for treating the boy. after consulting with physicians, he decided to go ahead with the treatment. over 11 days, meister received 13 inoculations, each inoculation using viruses that had been weakened for a shorter period of time. three months later he examined meister and found that he was in good health. pasteur was hailed as a hero and the legal matter was not pursued. analysis of his laboratory notebooks shows that pasteur had treated two people before his vaccination of meister. one survived but may not actually have had rabies, and the other died of rabies. pasteur began treatment of jean-baptiste jupille on october 20, 1885, and the treatment was successful. later in 1885, people, including four children from the united states, went to pasteur's laboratory to be inoculated. in 1886, he treated 350 people, of which only one developed rabies. the treatment's success laid the foundations for the manufacture of many other vaccines. the first of the pasteur institutes was also built on the basis of this achievement.
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in the years following the review, world rabies day has also been used by governments and international agencies as a day on which to announce policies, plans and progress on rabies elimination. for example, in 2013, the food and agricultural organization of the un, the world health organization and the world organisation for animal health first called for the global elimination of canine-mediated rabies in a joint statement released on world rabies day. it has been included in the association of southeast asian nations rabies elimination strategy. at the first pan-african rabies control network meeting in 2015, the 33 african countries represented there recommended consideration of world rabies day as an opportunity for rabies advocacy. in the philippines world rabies day has been observed at the national and local government levels since 2007, and is part of its national rabies prevention and control program.
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