Anthrax vaccines are vaccines to prevent the livestock and human disease anthrax, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, and have a prominent place in the history of medicine from Louis Pasteur's pioneering nineteenth-century work with cattle, the first effective bacterial vaccine and the second effective vaccine ever developed, to the controversial late twentieth-century use of a modern product to protect American troops against anthrax used in biological warfare. Human anthrax vaccines were developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1930s and by the United States and United Kingdom in the 1950s, with the vaccine currently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration formulated in the 1960s. Currently administered human anthrax vaccines include acellular varieties used in the United States and United Kingdom and a live spore variety used in Russia, and newer third-generation vaccines being researched include recombinant live and recombinant subunit vaccines.
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Anthrax vaccines are vaccines to prevent the livestock and human disease anthrax, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
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In May 1881, Pasteur performed a famous public experiment at Pouilly-le-Fort to demonstrate his concept of vaccination.
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