Timeline Monday 6 July 1885

Events on Monday 6 July 1885 1

• 1885 Pasteur administers first rabies vaccine to a human Joseph Meister becomes the first person successfully treated for rabies On 6 July 1885, Louis Pasteur treated nine-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by a rabid dog, with a series of injections of his experimental rabies vaccine. The boy survived, marking the first successful human application of a vaccine against rabies and a landmark in the history of immunology.