by Jack Hoehn | 6 August 2025 | In 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister was the first human ever to survive rabies—then called hydrophobia—as a human experiment of a primitive vaccine. As with modern vaccines, French scientist Louis Pasteur first tested the vaccine on animals—rabbits, then dogs. A few dogs had survived both rabies and the […] Source: https://atoday.org/should-we-fear-vaccines-the-benefits-far-outweigh-the-risks/
