(a) What had Pasteur cured the animals off?

Question

Read the following extracts carefully. Discuss in pairs and then write the answers to the questions given below them

‘If you can cure animals, you can cure my son’. 

(a) What had Pasteur cured the animals off? 

(b) What was wrong with the ‘son’ referred to? 

(c) Did Pasteur cure the boy? How?

Answer 1

(a) Pasteur had cured the animals of the terrible disease of Anthrax.

(b) The boy was covered with bites from a mad dog and was sure to die. 

(c) Pasteur inoculated the boy with some weak rabies germs and the boy recovered.