Rabies is a terrible disease. The virus usually enters the body through a bite from an animal thnt has the disease. The bite might not seem serious at first. Then, however, the virus moves to the brain, and the person starts to feel sick. The victim might have hallucinations' and other psychological symptoms. In the second stage of the disease, the victim is sometimes afraid of water and cannot drink. Finally, the rabies victim loses consciousness and dies
For thousands of years, rabies meant certain death. Any bite from n strange animal caused great fear. Then, in 1885, a famous French biologist, Louis Pasteur, developed a vaccine. The vaccine stopped the rabies virus. However, it only worked if the victim was given the vaccine at an early stage. In some cases, people did not get the vaccine soon enough. Then rabies symptoms appeared. The vaccine did not work at later stages, and the victim died