Rabies is a rare disease, so rare that the vast majority of doctors will never see a single case of the condition in their lifetimes. From 2000 through to 2020, there were only 52 human cases in the United States, making it one of the rarest diseases known to mankind.199 Despite this fact, the specter of rabies haunts the human imagination and a large proportion of the population believes that a single bite from an animal comes with a high risk of “catching” the disease. Probably as a result of this fear, rabies is frequently cited as both evidence for infectious disease (caused by a “virus”) and the need for vaccines.
Louis Pasteur is credited with the development of the rabies vaccine in the late 19th century after his public declaration that it had been successfully trialled in dogs preceding the then, first human trial. Wikipedia states that Pasteur, along with compatriot, Émile Roux,
developed the first rabies vaccination in 1885. Nine-year-old Joseph Meister (1876–1940), who had been mauled by a rabid dog, was the first human to receive this vaccine. The treatment started with a subcutaneous injection on 6 July 1885, at 8:00pm, which was followed with 12 additional doses administered over the following 10 days.200
The subsequent recovery of the young peasant Joseph was put down to Pasteur's alleged “treatment” which was a convenient explanation for what actually took place. The first issue is that rabies is a condition and whoever makes the diagnosis makes their decision based on a subjective selection from a collection of symptoms and signs. There is no objective test that can be performed and independently verified. Joseph had received at least a dozen bites from the dog but there was no way to know that he had or was going to develop rabies. Instead, as was reported, “upon examining the boy's wounds, Drs Vulpian and Grancher concluded that he almost surely faced death from rabies.”201 Therefore, despite Joseph being without symptoms, it had already been decided that any intervention that was administered at this point could be declared as life-saving.
The second issue is the nature of what was injected into the boy. Pasteur’s “transmission” experiments in animals were typically carried out by injecting tissue from a diseased animal into another animal with the claim that the diseased tissue contained an “infectious” agent. His experiments were not scientifically controlled and this type of exposure route does not require the existence of a germ to damage or kill the recipient animal. Pasteur’s vaccine was simply a variation of these experiments: he took spinal cord material from a dead rabbit, then “attenuated” the imagined germ by drying the tissue for around a week, and injected this into Joseph. The theory was that the claimed germ was weakened by this process which would allow the boy to become “immune” to the disease.
This dubious practice of inoculation with disease products to supposedly prevent disease in others persists until this day. Whether people believe it to be a valid health measure or not, it can be shown that the widely claimed success stories for Pasteur’s rabies vaccine were fallacious. After his long-hidden journals were finally disclosed in the mid-1970s, it was apparent that his public announcements about the successful treatment of rabies in dogs were fraudulent. In the 1995 book, The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, author Gerald Geison revealed that, “the survival rates for the two sets of dogs fall into the following ranges for the dogs treated by Pasteur, 50 to 78 percent, for the untreated control dogs, 57 to 71 percent.”202 In other words, there was no evidence that his rabies shot was of any use at all.
In fact, it was probably even worse. As Dr Montague Leverson reported in 1909, the widespread use of Pasteur’s rabies vaccines in France corresponded with a dramatic increase in the number of cases of the condition that it was supposedly preventing:
During twenty-three years preceding the use of the anti-rabic serum there were 685 deaths from rabies in all France, or an average of 30 per annum. But since the use of the anti-rabic inoculations the average has risen to 100 per annum, in place of 30, with a continually increasing number each year, so that according to the official returns the number of deaths from rabies in France for the year ending in June, 1907, was just about 300. In truth, as Professor Peter said, in his address to the Academy of Medicine, Paris, on the 11th of January, 1887, “M. Pasteur does not cure rabies he imparts it!”203
Geison had already written an article in 1978 outlining the overblown claims about the risk of humans developing rabies and the role of the rabies vaccine in treating victims of animal bites:
In any case, most victims of rabid animal bites could forego treatment without experiencing any untoward consequences in the future…In vaccinating the victim of an animal bite against rabies…one can never be sure that the subject of treatment has in fact contracted the disease. And one can therefore never be sure whether the treatment is even potentially beneficial to him or to anyone else.204
However, the enduring rabies mythology means that many people are convinced of the need for a vaccine if they have been bitten by an animal. As a consequence, if they do develop symptoms of rabies following such an injection, it can of course be blamed on the rabies “virus” rather than the purported treatment. Once again, it cannot be emphasized enough that there are much better actions to take to improve health instead of worrying about things that will almost certainly never affect us The illogical beliefs about rabies and the oft-repeated claim that the condition must be caused by a “virus” prompted us to publish the video, What About Rabies? in 2022.205
199 Ma, X., et al., Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2019,” Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1 Jun 2021: https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.258.11.1205
200 “Rabies vaccine,” Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine (accessed 25 Sep 2022)
201 Geison, G., The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, Princeton University Press, 1995
202 Ibid.
203 Leverson, M., “English city of Leicester as example of benefits of abolition of vaccination,” Bridgeport Evening Farmer, 21 Aug 1909.
204 Geison, G., “Pasteur’s Work on Rabies: Reexamining the Ethical Issues,” The Hastings Center Report, Apr 1978: https://doi.org/10.2307/3560403
205 Bailey, S., “What About Rabies?,” drsambailey.com, 5 Aug 2022: https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/what-about-rabies/
by Mark Bailey & Samantha Bailey
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The Final Pandemic: An Antidote To Medical Tyranny
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