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with a famous case of a nine-year-old boy,Joseph Meister,
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who had been severely bitten by a rabid dog
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and was thought to be certain to die an agonizing death.
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But taking advantage of the incubation period for rabies,
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Pasteur vaccinated the boy with his attenuated rabies virus.
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Joseph Meister survived, and became a celebrity patient,
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the first person ever known to have survived
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after being severely bitten by a rabid animal.
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And Meister remained loyal for the rest of his life,
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to Pasteur.
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He returned, as an adult,to Paris,
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to work as a gatekeeper at the Pasteur Institute,