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Detailed explanation-1: -Pasteur also worked to create a vaccine for anthrax . In his experiment, Pasteur gave 25 animals two shots of an anthrax vaccine he had created with weakened anthrax bacteria . After he gave both rounds of the vaccine to these animals, he injected them with live anthrax bacteria.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the mid-to late 19th century Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and discovered how to make vaccines from weakened, or attenuated, microbes. He developed the earliest vaccines against fowl cholera, anthrax, and rabies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pasteur began investigating anthrax in 1879. At that time an anthrax epidemic in France and in some other parts of Europe had killed a large number of sheep, and the disease was attacking humans as well. German physician Robert Koch announced the isolation of the anthrax bacillus, which Pasteur confirmed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822-September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.

Detailed explanation-5: -Early work on the development of a vaccine against anthrax in animals was carried out in the 1880s by W. S. Greenfield and by Louis Pasteur (Turnbull, 1991). What became known as Pasteur’s vaccine used an encapsulating nontoxigenic strain of B.