Pasteur's Anthrax Vaccine Breakthrough: A Scientific Journey #shorts

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Back to anthrax. That sounds That sounds quite palatable on the back of anthrax.

[00:00:03][laughter] Yeah, yeah, much better than whatever before. Uh so, anthrax was affecting livestock all across Europe, and there was a desperate need to create a vaccine against it. And earlier on in his career, Pasteur knew about this veterinarian named Henry Toussaint. And Henry Toussaint had said, "You know, I think a way to create a vaccine against chicken cholera and then anthrax is to kill whatever the microbe is that is causing this." So, he started messing with heat to heat treat samples and then inject them into animals, and the animals he noted would get ill but then not die and then become resistant to the disease afterwards. And Pasteur had been on the record saying, "I think you are totally off. I think that killing the microbe isn't helpful.