Then, in the middle of a big rabies outbreak in Paris, a vet sent samples of rabid dogs to Louis Pasteur, a french scientist who had success with conquering germs in the past, with a request to try and create a potential vaccine for rabies, and such began his work. After many years of studying the rabies virus, Pasteur made the prediction if he left infected tissue to dry, the virus would become weaker. And, as later experiments showed, that theory was correct. That was and still is called “attenuating” a virus, or is called an “attenuated” virus. Attenuate means to make weaker, so when a virus is attenuated, it is made weaker and less potent by various ways. Attenuating the rabies virus was the theory behind making the rabies vaccine. Eventually, attenuating the rabies virus paid off. In 1884, Louis Pasteur announced that he made a breaking discovery. He had, after many years of work, created a vaccine that used an attenuated rabies strain to protect dogs that had been exposed to the fatal rabies vaccine. Pasteur was revealed for this groundbreaking and lifesaving discovery, but his work wasn't done yet. He still had to create a cure for
Then, in the middle of a big rabies outbreak in Paris, a vet sent samples of rabid dogs to Louis Pasteur, a french scientist who had success with conquering germs in the past, with a request to try and create a potential vaccine for rabies, and such began his work. After many years of studying the rabies virus, Pasteur made the prediction if he left infected tissue to dry, the virus would become weaker. And, as later experiments showed, that theory was correct. That was and still is called “attenuating” a virus, or is called an “attenuated” virus. Attenuate means to make weaker, so when a virus is attenuated, it is made weaker and less potent by various ways. Attenuating the rabies virus was the theory behind making the rabies vaccine. Eventually, attenuating the rabies virus paid off. In 1884, Louis Pasteur announced that he made a breaking discovery. He had, after many years of work, created a vaccine that used an attenuated rabies strain to protect dogs that had been exposed to the fatal rabies vaccine. Pasteur was revealed for this groundbreaking and lifesaving discovery, but his work wasn't done yet. He still had to create a cure for