Virtually every infection with rabies has resulted…

Virtually every infection with rabies has resulted in death until two French scientists, Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux, develop the first rabies vaccination in 1885.

This vaccine is first used on a human on July 6, 1885, on nine-year-old Joseph Meister (1876–1940), who had been mauled by a rabid dog.

Their vaccine consists of a sample of the virus harvested from infected (and necessarily dead) rabbits, which is weakened by allowing it to dry for five to ten days.