On 4 July 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister was attacked by a rabid dog in Alsace and bitten fourteen times. In 1885, once rabies took hold, it was considered a death sentence. No person had ever survived confirmed infection. His mother, Marie-Angélique, refused to accept that outcome. She treated his wounds as best she could, boarded a train, and traveled the length of France to Paris seeking a scientist she had only heard about in rumors: Louis Pasteur. Pasteur was 62. He had developed a promising vaccine tested successfully on dogs, but it had never been given to a human. He was not a licensed physician. If the boy died after treatment, Pasteur could face legal consequences and the destruction of his reputation and life’s work. Two physicians examined Joseph and confirmed that without intervention he had no chance. On the evening of 6 July 1885, the first dose was given. Over the following weeks Joseph received thirteen injections, each prepared from the spinal cord of a rabid rabbit that had been dried for progressively fewer days—each dose slightly stronger than the last. The goal was to gradually train his immune system to fight the virus before it could reach his brain. Pasteur barely slept. He monitored every fever, every cough, every quiet hour. Joseph remained well. After the final injection came the hardest part: waiting. Days turned into weeks with no convulsions, no paralysis, no symptoms. On 25 August 1885, Joseph Meister left the Pasteur Institute and returned home to Alsace—the first person in history to survive confirmed rabies exposure. Word spread quickly. Desperate parents from across Europe brought bitten children to Paris seeking the same treatment. The results continued to hold. The breakthrough also reinforced Pasteur’s broader proof that invisible microorganisms, not miasma or divine punishment, caused disease. That insight transformed medicine: surgeons began sterilizing instruments, doctors washed their hands, and milk was heated to kill bacteria—a process still called pasteurization. As an adult, Joseph Meister returned to the Pasteur Institute and worked there as its caretaker for decades, living inside the building where his life had been saved. He was present when Pasteur died in 1895. Joseph lived to the age of 64. Every year of that life existed because a mother refused to accept a death sentence and a scientist chose to proceed with an untested human treatment on an evening in July. The boy survived.

 

insanity in traffic past 48 hrs lolz

 

 

 

 

 

thanks to trump and the NDP it was way better under horgan but like greens are the only cool party but only win a few seats conservatives are evil and dont belong here like they are fucked in the head or something thankfully I am employed cause I can see them cutting disability welfare and everything else

 

bahahahaha hardly believable fucken bunch of goofs ur interfering in ur own fucken elections WE DONT CARE you are NOT that important you will RUIN it all yourselves not us

 

 

BREAKING🚨 An 18-year-old Florida girl had financial aid lined up for college. Now, she works hotel shifts until midnight while raising her siblings — because ICE took BOTH parents On Aug. 9, Wendy Domingo, a U.S. citizen who had turned 18 the night before, was driving her parents and four younger siblings to buy her little brother sneakers for school. They had just come from church. It was the first time in months the whole family had been in one car together, because her undocumented parents were scared of getting picked up. Border Patrol pulled her over in Palm Beach County. When she asked why, the agent said the license plate was registered to a noncitizen. Her siblings, ages 16, 14, 11 and 3, sobbed in the car as agents detained both parents. In the video, Wendy hugs her dad and asks, "Why did we leave the house? Why didn't you just send me?" The agent told the family he wasn't going to deport the parents, just send them to get papers so they could go before an immigration judge. Abraham Domingo and Maria Leiva, who had lived in the U.S. for roughly 20 years, were sent to separate detention centers. Leiva was deported to Guatemala. Abraham self-deported rather than sit in detention with no end in sight. About a month later, Wendy put her 3-year-old brother, Aiden, on a plane to Guatemala to be with them. "They took us from our parents, and now this is taking us from our brother," her sister Jessica said at the Miami airport. Wendy had financial aid to study to become an ultrasound technician. Now she works hotel shifts, sometimes until midnight, while her younger sister watches the other kids and teaches herself to cook. "The house has gone completely quiet," Wendy said. DHS says "ICE does not separate families." The department also posted that the parents "are responsible for what happens to their children," and pointed to 2024 domestic violence charges against Abraham. Those charges were dropped. "They say that this is supposed to make America great again," Wendy said. "They're just crushing my people's dreams."

oh cute gay guys you saw at the garden shop and florist

 

oh he into the chip (w/dip)?

 

good your husband works in the trades that must pay well

 

oh they like fries eh?

 

did not know your new boyfriend is a former raver

 

sunset and muscles over the scenery

 

oh lord is he okay?

 

lays chips will get u laid

 

bear boy is ok

 

oh did not know that is him wow lmao

 

good he likes junk food

 

he took his shirt off at a rave for you?