Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The ironic reason that so much remains to be learned about rabies, says Dr. Robert G. Scholtens of the PHS's Communicable Disease Center, is that Pasteur produced an apparently workable vaccine so fast. His success in 1885 stifled medical interest in investigation of the disease.
So far as man and his domesticated animals are concerned, rabies is under control in the U.S. Last year only one person died of the disease-one-tenth of the toll ten years ago. The death rate among dogs is down by the same percentage; the rate among cats and...
Rabbits & Duck Eggs. Pasteur's and later rabies vaccines are unique in being given after the victim has been infected. This is because the disease has an amazingly variable incubation period-from ten days to eight months in both man and dog. An infected animal is not literally "rabid...
Until recently all rabies vaccine was made much as Pasteur made it: by injecting the virus into the brains of rabbits. The vaccine that was later extracted contained rabbit-brain protein, and it was likely to set up painful local reactions. In some cases it caused paralysis or death. In...
Human-to-Human Serum. Dr. Tierkel also had good news for people who may be bitten by suspected rabid animals around the head and neck-from which the virus may reach the central nervous system before abdominal injections have time to build up protective antibody. Since 1954. these victims have...