Rabies vaccine was not introduced to China until about 30 years after it was invented by Pasteur in 1885.Since the 1920s,rabies vaccine for human use in China has experienced the development process of animal brain tissue vaccine,adjuvant hamster kidney vaccine,concentrated adjuvant hamster kidney vaccine,concentrated purified adjuvant hamster kid-ney vaccine,concentrated purified unadjuvant hamster kidney vaccine,Vero cells and human diploid cell vaccine,and the production process is gradually mature and stable.From an annual production of 20-50 human doses a century ago to an an-nual production of 20 million human doses in 2022,China has jumped up to become a major producer and user of human ra-bies vaccine in the world.After a hundred years of efforts,the incidence rate of rabies among the population in China has dropped to 0.011 1/100 000,and the human rabies vaccine has contributed greatly.The history of human rabies vaccine in China is also the epitome of the development of biological products.
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