LOUIS PASTEUR
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Answer the following questions to check your understanding:
a) What happened one day while Louis Pasteur was playing with his friends?
Answer:- He saw a man was running towards him
and the man was very frightened. They said the news to Louis that someone had
been bitten by a mad wolf from the mountain. Louis knew that the wolf was
suffering from rabies.
b) What does rabies cause in human beings?
Answer:- Rabies is a viral disease that causes
inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals.
c) What experiment did Pasteur conduct on rabbits?
Answer:- He treated the ailing rabbits by injecting them with the same virus and succeeded in curing them.
d) Who was Pasteur's first human patient? Was his treatment successful?
Answer:- His first human patient was a school
boy who was bitten by a mad dog. His treatment was successful as the boy slowly
fully cured.
e) Where and when did the French government establish the Pasteur Institute? What is it famous for?
Answer:- In 1888, the French government founded the Pasteur Institute in Paris. It is famous for the study of biology, micro-organisms, disease and vaccines.