Rabies, its name comes from a Latin word meaning “to rage” has struck fear in people for centuries. An Italian physician, Girolama Fracastoro, discovered that rabies was a disease fatal to humans as well as animals in the 16th century, calling it an incurable wound. Louis Pasteur created the first rabies vaccine in 1885 using live rabies virus (Hennessen, 17). Pasteur’s early vaccine could cause serious, even fatal, reactions, but it was a start on the …showed first 75 words of 942 total…

…showed last 75 words of 942 total…Michigan Biologic Products Institute, uses fetal rhesus monkey cell cultures. Inactivated diploid cell origin, a dried vaccine made by Connaughy Laboratories in Toronto, Canada. (Finley, 33) Furthermore,” Virtually all vaccines are made from living systems, whether you are talking about the oral polio vaccine or DTP shots that your kids get or rabies {vaccines},” said Dr. Edward A. Fitzgerald director of the division of product quality control in FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.