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AN account of the anti-rabic vaccinations undertaken last year in the Pasteur Institute in Paris has been recently published (Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, vol. vii. p. 335, 1893). From the statistics here given it appears that no less than 1790 persons underwent this treatment during the past year in Paris alone, and that out of these only four subsequently died from rabies. In 600 of these cases the bites were attributed to animals suspected of suffering from hydrophobia at the time, but in all the others the certainty was established by subsequent veterinary examination, as well as by the death from rabies of other animals bitten by the animal in question.
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Hydrophobia Statistics for 1892 at the Institut Pasteur. Nature 48, 544 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048544a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/048544a0