The Origin of the Rabies Vaccine

The history of the rabies vaccine is really the story of scientific vaccines at large. In this video, Patrick Kelly tells the story of the history of rabies in society, the origin of the first rabies vaccine, explains the biology of rabies, and tells the story of the four boys from Newark New Jersey that survived rabies.

☠️NONE OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS VIDEO SHOULD BE USED AS MEDICAL ADVICE OR OPINION. IT IS FOR GENERAL EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT☠️

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Rabid by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (2012)
https://www.amazon.com/Rabid-Cultural...

Miracle Cure, the Creation of Antibiotics
https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Cure-C...

Rabies Up to Date (UTD access required): https://www.uptodate.com/contents/ima...

Timeline of Vaccines
https://historyofvaccines.org/history...
Rhabdoviruses https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
Acetylcholine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
Rabies textbook (2003) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Rabies: a possible explanation for the vampire legend (1998)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9748039/
Medical inquiries and observations by Bejamin Rush (1805)
https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catal...
America’s first medical breakthrough (1998)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2649773
The first live attenuated vaccines (2020)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d4285...
History of Pasteur Institute
https://pasteurfoundation.org/about/h...
Lecture 14 - The Germ Theory of Disease
https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234...
Louis Pasteur, the father of immunology (2012)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
CDC’s History of Anthrax
https://www.cdc.gov/anthrax/basics/an...
Rabid Response (2017)
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu...
Inoculation Against Hydrophobia in Popular Science Monthly (1886)
https://archive.org/details/popularsc...
Louis Pasteur: Between Myth and Reality (2022) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35454...
Developments in Rabies Vaccines: The Path Traversed from Pasteur to the Modern Era of Immunization (2023)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/4/756
Four Thousand Years of Concepts Relating to Rabies (2017)
https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/2/2/5
Up to date rabies cases
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/ima...
Child survivor of rabies in India case repor (2020)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32744...
Recovery from Rabies in Man (1976)
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.73...
Pasteur and rabies: the British connection (1989)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/...

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⌛T I M E S T A M P S ⌛
0:00 Intro
0:39 Biology of Rabies
2:58 Hair of the Dog (Antiquity)
8:32 Vaccines al Pasteur (Vaccine Development)
17:27 Out of La Rage (Public Health)

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