On July 6, 1885, a laboratory in Paris where Louis Pasteur worked had a visitor. It was a nine-year-old boy who was bit by a mad dog. Named Joseph from Alsace, France, the boy was in critical condition after being severely attacked by the crazed dog two days earlier. At the time, infection with rabi
Health authorities are having a rough time unexpectedly because of measles that broke out late last year. More than 80 cases were reported as of mid-March. People do not regard measles as a serious disease, but it was not a light ailment as recently as a generation ago.Measles, which were caught from dogs, are very contagious that once exposed to the virus, 95 percent of people develop an illn