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Louis Pasteur (Season 1, Episode 9)
TV Episode | 30 min | Animation

The time is 1860, and cholera is beginning to spread throughout France's chicken population. Louis Pasteur and his assistant, Emile Roux, collect samples and deduce that disease can be transmitted through air. They then draw blood from the...See moreThe time is 1860, and cholera is beginning to spread throughout France's chicken population. Louis Pasteur and his assistant, Emile Roux, collect samples and deduce that disease can be transmitted through air. They then draw blood from the chickens and see an unidentified germ in the specimens. While Pasteur and Roux work with the samples of blood, Pasteur has a debilitating stroke. From his bed, he expresses his determination to live, and continues to work with Roux by writing him notes. He tells Roux to inject the chickens with the contaminated blood. The chickens die. When Pasteur finally comes back to the laboratory, they discover the blood has altered from time. When they inject this blood into the chickens again, the cholera germs are killed.They have created a vaccination for the chickens. Meanwhile, sheep begin to die from anthrax. Even though other scientists mock Pasteur's findings, they agree to let him experiment on 25 sheep. They are all surprised to see the vaccine work. Pasteur is determined for vaccinations to work on people. He and Roux continue to experiment for four years until a young boy, Joseph Meister, contracts rabies from a wolf and his father brings him to Pasteur. Although hesitant to experiment on a human. Pasteur agrees to give him the shot. After five long days of waiting and another shot, Joseph Meister recovers and the world's first human vaccination is introduced. Written by Nest Family Entertainment See less
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Brian Nissen (screenplay)
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Updated Jun 1, 1995

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Jun 1, 1995 (United States)

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13 cast members
Name Known for
Victor Humphries
Louis Pasteur (voice) Louis Pasteur (voice)   See fewer
Kevin Farrell
Emile (voice) Emile (voice)   See fewer
Mimi Carr
Marie (voice) Marie (voice)   See fewer
Aldo Billingslea
Dillard (voice) Dillard (voice)   See fewer
Kurt Bernhardt
Pouchet (voice) Pouchet (voice)   See fewer
U. Jonathan Toppo
Minister of Agriculture (voice) (as John Toppo) Minister of Agriculture (voice) (as John Toppo)   See fewer
John Pribyl
Chairman of Medicine (voice) (as John Pribble) Chairman of Medicine (voice) (as John Pribble)   See fewer
David Kelly
Le Beque (voice) Le Beque (voice)   See fewer
Ray Porter
Jean (voice) Jean (voice)   See fewer
Sandy McCallum
Doctor (voice) (as Sandy McColum) Doctor (voice) (as Sandy McColum)   See fewer
Andrew Marshall
Joseph as Young Adult (voice) Joseph as Young Adult (voice)   See fewer
Jonathan Best
Joseph as Teenager (voice) (as Jon Best) Joseph as Teenager (voice) (as Jon Best)   See fewer
Matthew Best
Joseph as Child (voice) (as Mathew Best) Joseph as Child (voice) (as Mathew Best)   See fewer
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