Industrial Age · Europe · Science

1880

Pasteur's Chicken Cholera Vaccine

1880

In his Paris laboratory, Louis Pasteur discovered, half by accident, that an attenuated culture of chicken cholera could be used to immunize birds against the full-strength disease. It was the foundation of vaccination as a general scientific technique, to be extended in the following years to anthrax, rabies, and much more.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: February 18, 1879: Dual Alliance
After: March 13, 1881: Alexander II Assassinated

Before and after in Science

Before: March 1, 1869: Mendeleev's Periodic Table
After: March 24, 1882: Koch Finds TB Bacillus

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.