Portrait of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) by Albert Edelfelt, oil on canvas, 1886.

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Louis Pasteur in his laboratory at the Ecole normale supérieure in 1885, the year the rabies vaccine was developed. In his right hand , he holds a vial containing the spinal cord of a rabbit infected with the rabies virus, which will then be used for the manufacture of vaccines against rabies.

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