Who invented vaccines for anthrax and rabies?

Anthrax

- The first human anthrax vaccine was developed by Louis Pasteur and his colleagues in the late 1870s. It was an attenuated live vaccine, made by growing the anthrax bacteria in culture and then heating them to weaken them.

- British scientist Robert Koch came out with an alternate vaccine shortly after Pasteur's. It was made of pure killed bacteria rather than weakened live bacteria. Pasteur and his team also developed a second-generation anthrax vaccine that was more effective and safer than the first. This vaccine was introduced in the 1880s and has been used since then.

Rabies

- The first rabies vaccine was developed by Louis Pasteur and his colleagues in the 1880s. It was made from the spinal cords of rabbits infected with rabies. The vaccine was first tested on dogs and then on humans. It was found to be effective in preventing rabies.

- Pasteur developed another rabies vaccine that used the spinal cord of animals infected with rabies, which he used in the first-ever human rabies vaccination in 1885, saving the life of a young boy.