Disease |
Scientist |
Source |
Year |
Rabies |
Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux |
Virus harvested from dead rabbits |
1885 |
Polio |
1.Transmitted to monkeys– Landsteiner and popper |
------- |
1908
|
2. Preparation of serum by inoculating in horse- Pettit |
------- |
1917 |
3. Same by using chimpanzee
(neither of them proved effective than Netters serum) |
------- |
1932
|
Rotaviral diarrhea |
Ruth bishop was first to describe the virus |
From the faeces of children |
1973 |
Thomas Henry Flewett suggested the name rota virus |
------- |
1974 |
First licensed vaccine |
Cell cultures developed from monkey kidneys + trypsin |
1998 |
Infectious bursal diarrhea |
The virus recognized |
------- |
1967 |
Foot and mouth disease |
Friedrich Loeffler
|
Described the cause and showed virus in the filterate |
1897 |
Waldmann and Pape |
Used animal model to show the virus |