Class 8
ENGLISH SUNBEAM READER
LESSON-5
LOUIS PASTEUR
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| Louis Pasteur Questions Answers |
Louis Pasteur All questions & answer
1. Question No.1 Check Your Textbook
1.(a) What happened one day while Louis Pasteur was playing with his friends?
1.(b) What does rabies cause in human beings?

1.(c) What experiment did Pasteur conduct on rabbits?
1.(d) Who was Pasteur's first human patient? Was his treatment successful?
1.(e) Where and when did the French government establish the Pasteur Institute? What is it famous for?

3.Questions
a) Puja, “Beware of animal bites as they may cause rabies.”
b) Rohan, “Measles is a deadly disease. It can lead to pneumonia, diarrhea, and other life-threatening complications.”
c) Pushpa, “Rubella infection can lead to children born with congenital birth defects, such as blindness, deafness, mental retardation, and congenital heart defects.”
d) Juman, “The Anopheles mosquito carries malaria disease and in order to prevent it we must keep food and water covered, use repellent and sleep under a mosquito net.”
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| Louis Pasteur Lesson 5 |
(a)Yesterday I was returning from school alone.
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| Question No.9 |
Louis asked him what the matter was.
b) “Can you save my son?” the woman asked Louis.
The woman asked Louis if he could save her son.
c) “I’ll do whatever I can”, said Louis to the boy.
Louis told the boy that he would do whatever he could.

Lets’s Read the story
One Day when Louis Pasteur was playing with his friends. Suddenly he saw a man strangely running towards him. He was very frightened, Louis asked him the reason for his such behavior. The man replied that “Someone has been bitten by a mad wolf from the mountain”. Louis understood that the mad wolf was suffering from rabies.
If you don’t know, Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals. Animals with this viral disease get Mad. This viral is can be spread to humans also if human beings are bitten by animals with rabies.
Many years later, after that incident. Louis Pasteur started experimenting to discover the vaccine for this disease. He started his experiments on rabbits. In his experiments, he treated rabbits by injecting them with the same virus and he succeeded in curing them. After this successful experiment on rabbits, he thought to try it on human beings. And that chance came on 6 July 1885, when a boy was returning from school was bitten by a Mad dog. Her mother came to Pasteur to seek help She started crying. Louis Pasteur answered her that he is ready to give everything he had.
As the vaccine which was used on rabbits was successful but Pasteur was not sure about the outcome of the same vaccine when used on human beings. He thought that if it works it will benefit the entire human race in the future. Thinking this he made up his mind to take the risk. He injected the boy with the virus. After injecting the virus Pasteur Kept him under observation, the result which came was very surprising, the boy responded to Pasteur’s treatment. It was a huge achievement for Pasteur and a great discovery for the human race. This new method of treatment of rabies made Pasteur famous all over the world.

